Trump's early clash with courts portends years of legal battles
Lawyers for administration ordered to submit a brief defending his order to temporarily ban refugees
Washington
US President Donald Trump is barrelling into a confrontation with the courts barely two weeks after taking office, foreshadowing years of legal battles as an administration determined to disrupt the existing order presses the boundaries of executive power.
Lawyers for the administration were ordered to submit a brief on Monday defending Mr Trump's order temporarily banning refugees from around the world and all visitors from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. An appeals court in California on Sunday refused to reinstate the ban after a lower court blocked it.
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