“There’s a reason why, across more than three thousand cases in dozens of federal district courts, the #Trump administration decided to have its first appeal of a loss on this issue go to the #FifthCircuit,” said Steve Vladeck, #SCOTUS analyst & professor at Georgetown University Law Center, who has previously written about the legal dispute in these cases.
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“The #FifthCircuit isn’t just the most right-leaning appeals court in the country; the government drew on this panel two of that right-leaning court’s most right-leaning judges. It’s hard to imagine they’re going to get the last word,” he said.
Though other appeals courts around the #US are still examining the policy, the 5th Circuit’s ruling tees up a likely showdown over it at #SCOTUS.
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