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Trump's Travel Ban Is Back in Court
A lawyer for the White House pleaded with a panel of 13 federal judges on Monday to reinstate Trump's order restricting travel from six predominantly Muslim countries. A watered down version of an earlier ban was also blocked by the courts based on comments that Trump had made while on the campaign trail, which judges found showed that the ban was religiously motivated and potentially unconstitutional. The judges appear divided over whether to ignore Trump's past statements and motives in considering the validity of the ban. And, days after House Republicans passed a plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, Senate Republicans have recruited 13 members to write their own version of the bill. All of the lawmakers are conservative and all of them are male, drawing complaints


