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In court, Trump administration argues for travel ban

Reuters: President Donald Trump's administration asked a U.S. appeals court on Tuesday to rule a federal judge was wrong to suspend a temporary travel ban the president imposed on people from seven Muslim-majority countries and all refugees.

"Congress has expressly authorized the president to suspend entry of categories of aliens," attorney August Flentje, special counsel for the U.S. Justice Department, said under intense questioning from a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

"That’s what the president did here," Flentje said at the start of a more than hour-long oral argument conducted by telephone and broadcast live online. He said the president's Jan. 27 executive order was valid under the U.S. Constitution.

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