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President Trump\u2019s restrictions on travelers from terrorist-supporting countries was thrown out by the courts. \u00a0So new restrictions were drawn up that avoided the court\u2019s objections. \u00a0It too was thrown out, so now the ban is being taken up by the Supreme Court.<\/div>\n
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Once again, though, President Trump is his own worst enemy. \u00a0He fired off tweets criticizing his own people for \u201cwatering down\u201d the first executive order, which his staff revised in an effort to get his ban approved. \u00a0Furthermore, the president tweeted reasoning that undercuts the arguments being made by his own Justice Department, which is trying to defend Trump\u2019s ban before the courts.<\/div>\n
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From Mica Rosenberg and Andrew Chung, \u00a0<\/span>Trump complicates travel ban case by grumbling at Justice Department | Reuters<\/a>:<\/em><\/div>\n
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President Donald Trump accused his own Justice Department on Monday of watering down his temporary travel ban on people from several predominantly Muslim countries, potentially hurting his case in the Supreme Court on the matter.<\/div>\n

In a series of early morning Twitter messages, Trump returned to the issue of the travel ban that he raised immediately after an attack in London on Saturday night that killed 7 people and wounded 48.<\/p>\n

Legal experts said Trump\u2019s tweets could complicate his legal team\u2019s defense of the ban, since they contradict some of the arguments the government\u2019s lawyers are making in court. . . .<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original travel ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to S.C.,\u201d Trump tweeted, referring to the country\u2019s highest court.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Justice Dept. should ask for an expedited hearing of the watered down travel ban before the Supreme Court \u2013 & seek much tougher version!\u201d<\/p>\n

Federal courts struck down Trump\u2019s first temporary travel ban, an executive order he issued a week after taking office on Jan 20. To overcome the legal hurdles, he replaced it with a new order in March. The second ban was also put on hold by courts. . . .<\/p>\n

The revised order removed language barring legal permanent residents and a clause that protected religious minorities. It also removed Iraq from the list of targeted countries.<\/p>\n

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President Trump\u2019s restrictions on travelers from terrorist-supporting countries was thrown out by the courts. \u00a0So new restrictions were drawn up that avoided the court\u2019s objections. \u00a0It too was thrown out, so now the ban is being taken up by the Supreme Court. 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