Led by Texas, 13 US states have formed a coalition to defend President Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban against people from several Muslim countries.
The ban, which was introduced in late January and was revised earlier this month after facing legal issues, barred citizens of Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen and Libya from obtaining US visas in an attempt to keep what Trump called “radical Islamic terrorists” out of America.
Both the original and the revised versions of Trump’s directive were brought to a halt upon legal action by states like Washington, which took the matter to the 9th Circuit Court and convinced the judges that the ban discriminated against Muslims based on their religion.
This prompted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, along with 11 other state attorneys general and the governor of Mississippi, to file a court brief with the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, on Monday in support of the…