Trump Risks Undermining Travel-Ban Defense With Anti-Muslim Videos
- Retweets of anti-Islam videos may be court fodder next week
- President’s defenders say statements won’t hurt U.S. position
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President Donald Trump’s retweet of a series of anti-Muslim videos posted by a leader of a far-right group in the U.K. risks undermining his travel-ban defense a week before two federal appeals courts are set to to hear challenges to the directive.
Iranian Alliances Across Borders, one of the nonprofit groups suing Trump over the travel ban, will "almost certainly" use the president’s retweet to support its case, attorney Sirine Shebaya said. Other plaintiffs will "absolutely" use them as evidence that the third version of the ban, which makes no reference to religion, is actually motivated by animus toward Muslims, said Peter Spiro, an immigration law professor at Temple University in Philadelphia.