{"id":29279,"date":"2017-02-07T16:40:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T00:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=29279"},"modified":"2017-02-07T16:40:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T00:40:07","slug":"justice-dept-lawyer-pushed-to-defend-travel-order-asked-about-limits-on-presidents-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=29279","title":{"rendered":"Justice Dept. lawyer pushed to defend travel order, asked about limits on president\u2019s authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width='480' height='290' scrolling='no' src='\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/c\/embed\/1e86d0e4-ed4d-11e6-a100-fdaaf400369a' frameborder='0' webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By Matt Zapotosky and Robert Barnes February 7 at 6:40 PM<br \/>\nA federal appeals court panel peppered a government lawyer with skeptical questions Tuesday about why it should \u2014 or should not \u2014 restore President Trump\u2019s executive order temporarily barring refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Department lawyer August E. Flentje argued that the order was \u201cwell within the president\u2019s power as delegated to him by Congress,\u201d and that the president had determined there was a \u201creal risk\u201d in not pausing travel to the U.S. from those countries. But the three-judge panel, at least during his presentation, seemed skeptical, asking about what evidence the government had to necessitate the far-reaching ban and what limits could be imposed on the president\u2019s authority.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Solicitor General Noah Purcell, who is arguing the case to keep the ban frozen, said the government was asking the appeals court to \u201cabdicate\u201d its role as a check on the executive branch and \u201cthrow the country back into chaos.\u201d He, too, faced some critical questions.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width='480' height='290' scrolling='no' src='\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/c\/embed\/eaef83f8-ed5a-11e6-a100-fdaaf400369a' frameborder='0' webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To continue reading the article click here:  Washington Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Zapotosky and Robert Barnes February 7 at 6:40 PM A federal appeals court panel peppered a government lawyer with skeptical questions Tuesday about why it should \u2014 or should not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3193],"tags":[3194],"class_list":["post-29279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patent","tag-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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