{"id":294360,"date":"2017-02-15T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T06:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=294360"},"modified":"2017-02-15T06:00:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T06:00:19","slug":"trump-travel-ban-hit-by-new-legal-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/02\/trump-travel-ban-hit-by-new-legal-setback\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump travel ban hit by new legal setback"},"content":{"rendered":"
A US district judge in Virginia has ruled that President Donald Trump’s executive order barring entry from seven countries is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n
Judge Leonie Brinkema issued a preliminary injunction, asserting that the campaign vow to institute a “Muslim ban” violated the First Amendment.<\/p>\n
The Monday ruling is significant, as the judge ruled that religious bias is at the heart of Mr Trump’s ban.<\/p>\n
Another US judge has already upheld an order stopping implementation.<\/p>\n
The First Amendment prohibits the government from establishing laws that favour one religion over another.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month a judge in California upheld a lower court’s decision to bar the federal government from beginning implementation of the ban, which temporarily prohibits travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, and indefinitely suspends the refugee admissions programme.<\/p>\n