Hillary Clinton tweaks Trump over unanimous appeals court ruling against travel
ban
Hillary Clinton tweaked President
Trump on Twitter shortly after a federal appeals court ruled against her old
foe’s travel ban Thursday.
Clinton, the 2016 Democratic
presidential nominee, did not include any words in her tweet. Instead, she
simply wrote “3-0,” noting the unanimous ruling of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals.
Clinton has kept a low profile since
losing the Nov. 8 election to Trump. She attended his inauguration, and via
Twitter cheered the Women’s March on Washington the following day. Earlier this
week, she filmed a video for a conference celebrating women leaders. “The
future is female,” she told the group.
Hillary Clinton in Washington for
Trump’s inauguration. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Earlier Thursday evening, the San
Francisco-based appeals court declined to block a lower court’s ruling from
last Friday that suspended key parts of a Trump executive order restricting
immigration. The Trump order, signed Jan. 27, barred all refugees from the U.S.
for 120 days and blocked all travel from seven majority-Muslim countries for 90
days.
The executive order led to chaos at
many airports as border officials scrambled to enforce the ruling, with the
administration initially saying it would apply to green-card visa holders
before reversing itself. Protests erupted at airports where travelers were in
transit when the order was signed were initially detained.
Trump vowed to appeal the ruling to
the Supreme Court. Immediately following Thursday’s ruling, he tweeted “SEE YOU
IN COURT.” The president has repeatedly criticized both the appeals court and
the lower court, saying Wednesday that even “a bad student in high school”
would see the law as obviously on his side.
The American Civil Liberties Union,
which has vowed to fight Trump’s executive order, said the same.
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