Washington — President Donald Trump’s temporary immigration ban on Monday faced the first of several crucial legal hurdles that could determine whether he can push through the most controversial and far-reaching policy of his first two weeks in office. On Monday, the government has a deadline to justify the executive order temporarily barring immigrants from seven mostly Muslim countries and the entry of refugees after a federal judge in Seattle blocked it with a temporary restraining order on Friday. The uncertainty caused by a judge’s stay of the ban has opened a window for travellers from the seven affected countries to enter the US. Trump has reacted with attacks on the federal judge and then the wider court system, which he blames for stymieing his efforts to restrict immigration, a central promise of the Republican’s 2016 presidential campaign. Democrats, meanwhile, sought to use Trump’s attacks on the judiciary to raise questions about the independence of his Supreme Court no...
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