Many legal experts say that if President Trump took his legal battle over his executive order to temporarily stop immigration and refugees to the US Supreme Court, that he would most likely win. However, Trump has announced that he will be soon issuing a new executive order on immigration and refugees instead of prolonging court battles.
The Justice Department told a federal appeals court on Thursday that it would not seek a rehearing of a decision that shut down President Trump’s targeted travel ban. Instead, the administration will start from scratch, issuing a new executive order, the department said.
Last Thursday, a unanimous three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, blocked the key parts of the original executive order, which suspended the nation’s refugee program as well as travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries. The panel said the original ban was unlikely to survive constitutional scrutiny.
The Justice Department said that the panel’s decision was riddled with errors but that the flaws it noted would be addressed in the new executive order.
“Rather than continuing this litigation,” the Justice Department’s brief said, “the president intends in the near future to rescind the order and replace it with a new, substantially revised executive order to eliminate what the panel erroneously thought were constitutional concerns.”
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