Here we are: Travel ban injunction arguments at the 9th Circuit are due to start in 5 minutes.pic.twitter.com/KlP3rIYWVw
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This is DOJ's appeal about the injunction's scope: If grandparents, cousins, etc., should be exempted, and if resettlement agencies count.
District ct interpreted the #SCOTUS stay narrowly, to exempt both of those groups from the travel and refugee bans. DOJ argues otherwise.
Each side gets 20 minutes. Here we go. Hashim Mooppan is arguing for DOJ.
Gould, asking about not including grandparents, aunts, uncles in the exemption: "In what universe does that come from?"
In response, Mooppan repeatedly emphasizes: "Your spouse's family becomes your family" in explaining why in-laws are covered.
Moving on to the refugee resettlement assurance part, Mooppan says the stay from SCOTUS is virtually dispositive of the question.
Colleen E. Roh Sinzdak is up now for Hawaii, arguing that the government has gone too far.
Sinzdak argues DOJ is arguing "new standards, not from the Supreme Court, but of the government’s own invention."
Judge Hawkins hitting at distinction between immigrants, with statutory rights, and refugees, which he says is a "discretionary" process.
(Specifically, in reference to the stay / injunction issue — as opposed to the merits.)
Sinzdak: SCOTUS "did not dwell on differences between immigrant and refugees. ... They looked at who will experience concrete hardship."
Mooppan is up for rebuttal, focused on the fact that no law uses the plaintiffs' definition of family: A "hodge-podge."
Gould: "The court will submit the case for decision." </fin>
[Story to come.]
Here's my story on today's travel ban injunction arguments at the Ninth Circuit in Seattle:https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/ninth-circuit-has-tough-questions-on-trump-administrations?utm_term=.gvNNO1VxK#.srBxrpM5b …
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