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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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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