Appeals court will hear arguments on Trump travel ban

Politico - A federal appeals court will hear oral arguments Tuesday on the Justice Department's request to overturn a broad block on President Donald Trump's travel ban executive order.

The San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals announced that a three-judge panel will hold an hour-long telephone argument session starting at 6 p.m. ET (3 p.m. PT.) Tuesday.

The arguments were scheduled just as the Trump administration filed a new brief arguing that national security concerns make it improper for the courts to intrude on executive branch decisions about which foreigners should be denied entry to the U.S.

The new filing warns the courts against taking "the extraordinary step of second-guessing a formal national-security judgment made by the President himself pursuant to broad grants of statutory authority," the new government filing said.

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