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US court probes whether Trump’s travel ban unfairly targeted Muslims
The travel ban signed into law by President Donald Trump is being investigated by a US appeals court which is now questioning whether the ban unfairly targeted people from the seven listed Muslim-majority countries.
Reports say a ruling on US administration’s travel ban is expected soon after judges demand ‘terrorism’ evidence linked to seven nations.
Trump’s lawyer faced more than an hour of questioning and oral argument by a three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals who pressed him asking whether the Trump administration’s national security argument was backed by evidence that people from the listed nations posed any security threat.
Read also: Trump’s travel ban halted by US federal judge
“I actually can’t believe that we’re having to fight to protect the security, in a court system, to protect the security of our nation,” Trump said on Tuesday.
“This is a very dangerous period of time because while everybody is talking and dealing, a lot of bad people are thinking, ‘hey, let’s go in right now’.”
Recall that moments after a US Court of Appeal denied an appeal application filed by the US justice department seeking to unblock the travel ban, Trump lashed the American court system saying it is endangering the country.
After signing the controversial executive order which was later blocked by US District Judge James Robart, Trump has been been greeted with severe political backlash with his travel ban order driving numerous mass protests across America.
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