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Hamas-linked CAIR behind new challenge to Trump travel ban, says it’s “aimed at the Muslim community and Islam”

JAN 28, 2020 11:00 AM BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS31 COMMENTS

“After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from several predominantly Muslim countries in 2018, the ruling appeared to shut down legal challenges that claimed the policy was rooted in anti-Muslim bias.”

But now, the issue is on the table again.

A federal appeals court in Richmond is set to hear arguments from civil rights groups hoping to keep the challenges alive.

This time, the argument is about “favoring one religion over another”; the challenge accuses Trump’s ban of being “aimed at the Muslim community and Islam.” But remember, the countries of concern which were selected were from the Obama era.

Is anyone at all wondering why they are listed as such? The answer is simple: because the listed countries cannot or will not provide adequate information about those wanting to enter the US. This is a national security issue.

At the center of the challenge is none other than representatives of CAIR — an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case.

“Trump’s Travel Ban Faces New Challenge in Federal Appeals Court,” by Denise Lavoie, Time Magazine, January 26, 2020:

(RICHMOND, Va.) — After the U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from several predominantly Muslim countries in 2018, the ruling appeared to shut down legal challenges that claimed the policy was rooted in anti-Muslim bias.

But a federal appeals court in Richmond is set to hear arguments from civil rights groups hoping to keep the challenges alive.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments Tuesday in three lawsuits filed by U.S. citizens and permanent residents whose relatives have been unable to enter the U.S. because of the travel ban, which was first imposed shortly after Trump took office in January 2017.

The court is being asked to decide whether a federal judge in Maryland made a mistake when he refused to dismiss constitutional claims made in a lawsuit filed by the International Refugee Assistance Project despite a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a Hawaii case that found the travel ban “a legitimate grounding in national security concerns.”

The Justice Department argues the high court’s ruling effectively puts an end to the legal challenges. In a 5-4 ruling, a sharply divided Supreme Court found that the travel ban was within the considerable authority U.S. presidents have over immigration and their responsibility for keeping the nation safe. The court rejected claims that the policy was rooted in anti-Muslim bias based in large part on Trump’s own tweets and public statements, including his call during the presidential campaign for “a complete and total shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”

Trump has said the ban is aimed at making the U.S. safer from potentially hostile foreigners.

“The Court rejected the argument that the Proclamation could be explained only by anti-Muslim bias, and held instead that the Proclamation was rationally grounded in legitimate national-security concerns and foreign policy objectives,” Justice Department lawyers argue in a legal brief.

The Trump administration is asking the 4th Circuit to dismiss the lawsuits.

But the plaintiffs’ attorneys say the Supreme Court merely rejected a preliminary injunction to block the travel ban and did not decide the merits of the constitutional claims. The plaintiffs allege the travel ban violates several constitutional rights, including the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause prohibiting the government from favoring one religion over another.

“The Trump administration has supplied ample and damning evidence of its discriminatory intent, time and time again, so we’re hopeful that any court — any fair-minded observer — will see it the way we do, that it is a Muslim ban that’s aimed at the Muslim community and Islam,’” said Gadeir Abbas, a senior litigation attorney with the Council on American-Islamic Relations….