Candidate Donald Trump's calls for a ban on Muslim immigration are
at the heart of a challenge to his revised executive order restricting
travel, to be considered Monday by a federal appeals court.
To those who successfully sued to stop
enforcement, his statements are clear proof that the order was based on
religious discrimination. But to the Trump administration, they are
irrelevant, because all that counts is what the president said and did
after he took the oath of office.
The government is urging the 4th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, to lift a stay imposed by a
federal judge in Maryland on March 16 blocking the administration from
carrying out the executive order. The full 15-member court will consider
the appeal, bypassing the normal first step of a hearing before a
three-judge panel.
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