Trump Travel Ban Won’t Be Reinstated, Appeals Court Rules
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The United States is a country with checks and balances, meaning the President can't assert excessive powers just because he says he has them. For now, the travel ban is on ice.
The executive order that President Donald Trump penned in March banning entry to citizens from several Muslim-majority countries into the United States will not go back into effect, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
"Congress granted the President broad power to deny entry to aliens, but that power is not absolute," wrote Chief Judge Roger Gregory in an opinion for the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia. "It cannot go unchecked when, as here, the President wields it through an executive edict that stands to cause irreparable harm to individuals across the nation."
The decision affirms the earlier ruling by a lower district court to grant a preliminary injunction against Trump's second attempt to
