Judges criticize travel ban weeks before it heads to Supreme Court
A panel of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges heard arguments Monday in Seattle over how broadly President Donald Trump's travel ban can be enforced, and seemed inclined to uphold exemptions that let U.S. residents' relatives continue to arrive from banned countries.
The judges, Michael Hawkins, Ronald Gould and Richard Paez, who will issue their opinion later, will not decide whether the ban is legal. That question, one the same judges considered this year in a decision that suspended the ban, is left to the U.S. Supreme Court to take on
