The Ninth Circuit, widely considered one of the most liberal in the country, has reversed a ruling from an activist judge to block the Trump administration’s efforts to end the visa lottery heading into next year. The three-panel court, made up of Clinton, Biden, and Bush appointees, ruled 3-0 in favor of the Trump administration, saying that it “would be opening the floodgates, allowing all lawyers to ‘roam the country in search of governmental wrongdoing’” had they not ruled against it.
The Trump administration had been ordered to reinstate the visa lottery in mid-October by Judge Jinsook Ohta,
