The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against President Donald Trump’s revised executive order limiting travel from six predominately Muslim countries.
The ruling is yet another rejection from a court that similarly refused to reinstate Trump’s original executive order on travel in February. “We conclude that the President, in issuing the Executive Order, exceeded the scope of the authority delegated to him by Congress,” the judges wrote.
The court largely confirmed the decision a Hawaiin judge made March which found the revised executive order that temporarily restricted all refugees and foreign nationals from six major Muslim countries from entering the United States because it was believed to be “a muslim ban”, according to reports.
The ruling will be appealed to the Supreme Court, which is currently considering a similar case from the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia. Attorney General Jeff Sessions after the Judge’s ruling condemned the action, in his words he was “amazed that a judge sitting on an island in the Pacific can issue an order that stops the President of the United States from what appears to be clearly his statutory and constitutional power.”
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