Massachusetts judge probes whether Trump's travel ban targets Muslims
Source: Reuters
03 FEB 2017 AT 13:06 ET
A federal judge in Boston expressed skepticism on Friday about a civil rights group’s claim that President Donald Trump’s order banning citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States represented religious discrimination.
The hearing was the first on Friday in a series of legal challenges to the measure the new Republican president signed last week, which blocked people holding passports from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
The order also temporarily stopped the entry of all refugees into the country and indefinitely halted the settlement of Syrian refugees.
Federal judges in Seattle and Virginia on Friday will also weigh lawsuits filed by different states and advocacy groups challenging the order.
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