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Trump's Tweets May Have Sunk His Travel Ban

The president fires off some ill-advised tweets confirming the legal arguments opposed to his policy
Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

It is more dangerous to be Donald Trump’s friend than his enemy.

Monday, acting solicitor general Jeffrey B. Wall found this out the hard way, as he joined White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein under the Trump bus.

On Thursday of last week, Wall had filed a in. In that case, a district judge in Maryland had blocked Trump’s Executive Order freezing admission to the U.S. of nationals of six majority-Muslim countries.  The en banc Court of Appeals then affirmed the injunction; the court’s by Chief Judge Roger Gregory said that the order “in text speaks

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