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Trump's Travel Ban Wins a Round in Court

A judgment last week in Virginia provides a template for other courts—including the Supreme Court—to rule in the president’s favor.
Source: Carlos Barria / Reuters

President Trump suffered a series of major setbacks last week, beginning with FBI Director James Comey’s blockbuster announcement that his agency is investigating the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia and ending with the collapse of the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act. But he also closed out the week with a little-noticed victory in the courts—one that could herald a path forward on one of his most contentious policies.

The case, , was filed in a federal district court in Alexandria, Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C. Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian American activist who most recently helped organize the Women’s March, and a group of other Muslim plaintiffs asked the court to suspend the second version of his controversial

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