Will the President's travel ban hold up in court?

We the People

National Constitution Center

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🗓️ 18 May 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Leah Litman of the University of California, Irvine, and Earl Maltz of Rutgers University discuss the latest legal developments and how the ban may ultimately fare at the Supreme Court. Continue today’s conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at editor@constitutioncenter.org. Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly. Please subscribe to We the People and our companion podcast, Live at America’s Town Hall, on iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out the full roster of podcasts at Panoply.fm. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit; we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by David Stotz and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Lana Ulrich and Tom Donnelly. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen.

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0:36.5	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome
0:46.7	to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:50.6	The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America chartered by Congress
0:55.8	to disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis.
1:01.5	And on today's show, we return to President Trump's executive order
1:05.7	temporarily suspending refugee admission and travel from several countries
1:10.6	in the Middle East on back-to-back Mondays this month, which is May,
1:15.8	two federal appellate courts, the fourth and ninth circuits,
1:19.1	heard arguments in challenges to the President's second order.
1:23.6	The order is currently blocked by lower courts
1:26.6	thanks to challenges from Hawaii, Washington State, and others.
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