Immigration

Ninth Circuit Thinks Government Argument Is Out Of This World

I'm pretty sure this judge isn't buying it, you guys.

Like, what universe does that come from?

— Judge Ronald Gould, in his first question of DOJ attorney Hashim Mooppan, about the government’s position that grandparents and aunts and uncles wouldn’t constitute a “close familial relationship” in the ongoing Quixotic effort to institute a Muslim ban. It seems Judge Gould is… unconvinced?