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A federal appeals court upheld a lower court's ruling that grandparents and other family members are not subject to President Trump's travel and refugee bans.
Likewise, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld US District Judge Derrick Watson's decision that exempted would-be refugees who have received formal assurances of support from resettlement agencies from the refugee ban.
The three-judge panel issued the decision less than two weeks after hearing arguments on the questions in Seattle in late August.
"The Government does not meaningfully argue how grandparents, grandchildren, brothers-in-law, sisters-in- law, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins of persons in the United States can be considered to have 'no connection' to or 'lack any bona fide relationship' with persons in the United States," the court held in an unsigned opinion.
The ruling does not go into effect for five days. That decision holds off the resettlement agency portion from going into effect just yet, as that portion — but not the family portion — of Watson's injunction had been put on hold by the US Supreme Court pending the Ninth Circuit's ruling of the Justice Department's appeal of the injunction.
The Justice Department could use that time to seek Supreme Court review.
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