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“We are now perceived by many to be the front line of defense.”

The Blue State Attorneys General Resisting Trump

EghtesadOnline: With Democrats outnumbered in Congress, a coalition of blue state attorneys general has emerged as the strongest resistance to Donald Trump’s conservative agenda.
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Publish Date:25/March/2017 | 05:40

Virginia Judge Tees Up Travel Ban Argument for Top Court

EghtesadOnline: A Virginia judge helped tee up an argument likely to be fought all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court over President Donald Trump’s efforts to restrict travel to the U.S. from six predominantly Muslim countries.
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Publish Date:25/March/2017 | 04:52

Immigration judges headed to 12 U.S. cities to speed deportations

EghtesadOnline: The U.S. Justice Department is developing plans to temporarily reassign immigration judges from around the country to 12 cities to speed up deportations of illegal immigrants who have been charged with crimes, according to two administration officials.
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Publish Date:18/March/2017 | 09:09

Courts to hear arguments challenging Trump's new travel ban

EghtesadOnline: Court hearings in Hawaii and Maryland on Wednesday could decide the immediate fate of President Donald Trump's revised travel ban, which is set to take effect at 12:01 a.m. EDT (0401 GMT) on Thursday.
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Publish Date:15/March/2017 | 14:46

Several states jointly sue to block Trump's revised travel ban

EghtesadOnline: A group of states renewed their effort on Monday to block President Donald Trump's revised temporary ban on refugees and travelers from several Muslim-majority countries, arguing that his executive order is the same as the first one that was halted by federal courts.
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Publish Date:14/March/2017 | 06:38

Maryland to join other states in court challenge to Trump's travel ban

EghtesadOnline: Maryland became the latest state to join in legal challenges against President Donald Trump's revised temporary travel ban on Friday, with its attorney general saying it would join a lawsuit brought by Washington and other states.
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Publish Date:11/March/2017 | 24:10

Trump's new travel ban raises bar for legal challenges

EghtesadOnline: The new, more narrowly tailored temporary travel ban President Donald Trump signed on Monday will be more difficult to challenge successfully in court, legal experts said.
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Publish Date:07/March/2017 | 14:03

U.S. suspends fast processing of high-tech visa applications

EghtesadOnline: Foreigners aiming for temporary jobs at high-tech U.S. companies will undergo a longer visa approval process after the Trump administration announced it will temporarily suspend expedited applications for H-1B visas.
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Publish Date:05/March/2017 | 05:43

Iran’s Farhadi to introduce rep. to Oscar Academy Awards

EghtesadOnline: In continuation to protest US President Donald Trump’s visa ban order, world-known Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, and the director of the Oscar nominated film ‘The Salesman’ will introduce a representative to the Oscar Academy Awards.
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Publish Date:25/February/2017 | 05:44

Trump to replace travel ban order in near future

EghtesadOnline: U.S. President Donald Trump will replace his executive order suspending travel from seven Muslim-majority countries "in the near future," according to a Justice Department court filing on Thursday.
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Publish Date:16/February/2017 | 21:10

Challenge to Trump travel ban moves forward in two courts

EghtesadOnline: The most consequential legal challenge to U.S. President Donald Trump's travel ban will proceed on two tracks in the next few days: in a U.S. appeals court vote in San Francisco and the Seattle courtroom of a federal judge.
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Publish Date:15/February/2017 | 05:34

Court's Message to Trump: We Won't Back Down

EghtesadOnline: The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upholding a nationwide freeze on Donald Trump’s immigration executive order is a powerful rebuff to the administration -- and to the president personally.
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Publish Date:10/February/2017 | 11:43

For Trump Travel Ban, Hard Questions From a U.S. Appeals Court

EghtesadOnline: It was, by any measure, high legal drama: For just over an hour, appeals court judges sharply questioned the lawyer defending President Donald Trump’s ban on travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries.
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Publish Date:08/February/2017 | 08:18

U.S. court to hear arguments Tuesday on Trump's travel ban

EghtesadOnline: A U.S. federal appeals court will hear arguments on Tuesday over whether to restore President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries, the most controversial policy of his two-week old administration.
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Publish Date:07/February/2017 | 05:08

Iranian Businesses Deferring US Investment

EghtesadOnline: Amin Shokrollahi was supposed to be in Silicon Valley last week to accept an award at a prominent semiconductor conference called DesignCon. He never made it.
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Publish Date:06/February/2017 | 15:06

Trump steps up attack on judge, court system over travel ban

EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump on Sunday ramped up his criticism of a federal judge who blocked a travel ban on seven mainly Muslim nations and said courts were making U.S. border security harder, intensifying the first major legal battle of his presidency.
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Publish Date:06/February/2017 | 06:22

Iranian academics react to Trump’s visa ban, call for wise policy

EghtesadOnline: The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran should take a different approach to address the problem caused by the controversial order by president Donald Trump banning Iranians from entering the United States, says Iranian academics.
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Publish Date:05/February/2017 | 10:01