(FOX NEWS) The latest legal showdown over President Trump’s revised executive order targeting refugees and nationals from six predominately Muslim countries hits a Seattle appellate courtroom Monday morning.
The key issue before a three-judge panel is whether the president’s comments before he took office – suggesting he would ban Muslims from entering the country — provides sufficient legal grounds to rule his order unconstitutional.
In March, a federal judge in Hawaii enjoined the order from taking effect, not based on the language of the directive, but rather the “religious animus” of comments Trump and his advocates made about the policy.
