SEVEN months ago, Derrick Watson, a federal judge in Hawaii, blocked Donald Trump’s second ban on travel from Muslim countries before it could go into effect. The “illogic” of the administration's desire to keep hundreds of millions of travellers out of the country was “palpable”, the ruling said. On October 17th, Judge Watson (pictured above) struck again, freezing Mr Trump’s latest travel ban, which would have taken effect at 12:01am on October 18th. The judge said the new order—which removes Sudan but adds Chad, North Korea and Venezuelan government officials to the forbidden list, and makes the ban permanent—“suffers from precisely the same maladies as its predecessor”. Hours later, another judge in Maryland blocked the ban for travellers with a "bona fide" connection to America.
Plaintiffs challenging Mr Trump’s proclamation had argued that the updated travel restrictions still discriminate against Muslims, violating both...Continue reading
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