****US court says Trump travel ban unlawfully discriminates against Muslims****

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*President Donald Trump's travel ban targeting people from six Muslim-majority countries violates the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled.

*The ban discriminates on the basis of religion, the court ruled, in another legal setback for the policy.

*The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed the ban to go into effect while litigation challenging it continues.

President Donald Trump's travel ban targeting people from six Muslim-majority countries violates the U.S. Constitution by discriminating on the basis of religion, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday in another legal setback for the policy.

The Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, on a 9-4 vote, became the second federal appeals court to rule against the ban, finding that the Republican president's own words demonstrated that bias against Muslims was the basis of the policy.

The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed the ban, put in place by Trump with a presidential proclamation in September, to go into effect while litigation challenging it continues.

The 4th Circuit ruling went further than the earlier decision by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which found the ban violated federal immigration law but did not address the question of whether it also violated the Constitution. The Supreme Court already has said it will consider both issues in deciding the legality of the ban in the coming months.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/15/us-court-says-trump-travel-ban-unlawfully-discriminates-against-muslims.html

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1. awesome.

FUCK Trump

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2. Travel ban unlawful

K&R!!!

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3. violates the U.S. Constitution

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4. Trump loses another lawsuit