Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., said via Twitter, “Fight is not over but this is a great victory for our values.”
State Attorney General Xavier Becerra, a former Los Angeles-area congressman, said the court “ruled on the side of justice.”
“… the Trump Administration violated the Constitution when it blocked tens of thousands of law-abiding people — who have already been vetted and received permission to enter — from traveling to the United States,” he said.
Despite the unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, the constitutionality of Trump’s order will ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Trump made it clear he plans to continue fighting to implement his order, writing on his Twitter account — in all capital letters — “SEE YOU IN COURT. THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!”
A federal judge in Seattle last week issued a nationwide restraining order blocking Trump’s order, leading to the appeal to the 9th Circuit. Trump has repeatedly defended the action as necessary to beef up the vetting of immigrants to prevent terrorists from entering the country.
The order calls for a suspension of all refugee entries for 120 days, indefinitely blocks all Syrian refugees and bars entry for 90 days to all immigrants from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
Eric Bauman, chairman of the Los Angeles County Democratic Party, said he was relieved but not surprised by the appeals court’s ruling.
“It seemed [that] everyone except the president and his administration knew that the order was unconstitutional, and the decision by our judiciary serves to confirm that,” Bauman said. “The United States from the onset has been a nation of refugees and immigrants, and we always will be.”
Read the full text of the appeals court’s ruling here.
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barbara says
… okay, so there you have it. Now that federal and state judiciary arbitrarily blocked the travel ban? They own it. From here on out, blame for any form of terrorism on United States soil solely rests, upon the doorstep of our intellectually bankrupt judicial system. Any loss of American life, our judiciary is now wholly and materially responsible –
JENNY WILSON says
STOP SMOKING THAT METH PIPE
JOHN LAMBERT says
Are you Threatheningba Federal Judges Because if You Are Its A Federal Crime
Tim Scott says
Among daft things to say, this may be the daftest.
Tim Scott says
Well, that was a crushing. Dingbat Donny overstepped his constitutional authority so badly that the judges almost had to just be laughing as they wrote out that decision.
William says
It’s amateur hour at the White House/trump tower/Mar a Lago or wherever he his.
Don’t worry though. Things won’t improve with people who can’t/won’t take correction and will likely worsen as the days go by.
There will be even more serious or even catastrophic events in the country’s future and hopefully it will impact the trump voters the most. They deserve what they wished for.
Then, there is Kellyanne Conway pimping ivanka’s overpriced foreign made stuff following the Bowling Green Massacre and “alternative facts” that fell out of her mouth. And, SHE is trump’s counselor. No wonder.
SMHX2 says
Dictator Trump will not stop, if after this goes to the supreme court he doesn’t get his wish he will call them “so-called judges” as well. What a sorry axx MF, our country has become a worldwide joke!
Joe Allen says
Tim, the three appellate court judges did not rule on the constitutionality of the executive order. The case before the appellate court was to determine if the judge from Washington State made the ruling within his authority.
Tim Scott says
The basis of the government’s appeal of the stay ordered by the Washington judge was “we will eventually win the case.” The argument against them was “no, you won’t, because the order is plainly unconstitutional.” The appellate court, among other things, notes that the chances of the government eventually winning are not good, especially since when confronted with “the order is unconstitutional on these grounds” they literally had no argument.