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1 verified report published on March 15, 2017.
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March 15 was another reminder that you can’t bully your way around a bad legal theory. Trump tried to relabel the same policy, the courts looked at the record, and the record still smelled like the first version in a new suit.
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A federal judge in Hawaii issued a temporary restraining order blocking key parts of Trump’s revised travel ban just hours before it was scheduled to take effect. The ruling landed as a direct repudiation of the administration’s attempt to relaunch the same policy under a new executive order. It immediately undercut Trump’s claim that the White House had cleaned up the legal mess from the first ban.