Trump Vows To Battle 'Judicial Overreach' After Travel Ban Blocked Again

Published March 16, 2017 at 12:06 PM EDT

President Trump speaks at a rally on March 15, 2017 in Nashville. (Andrea Morales/Getty Images)

President Trump’s revised travel ban has been dealt another setback Thursday — from a federal court in Maryland. This after a federal judge in Hawaii ordered Wednesday night that the travel ban targeting six majority-Muslim countries be put on hold, just hours before it was to take effect.

Here & Now‘s Meghna Chakrabarti talks with Rick Hasen (@rickhasen), professor of law and political science at the University of California Irvine, about the latest chapter in the travel ban story.

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