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Audio: Trump Administration 9th Circuit Court Travel Ban Argument

Audio: Trump Administration 9th Circuit Court Travel Ban Argument

(Bloomberg) -- Tens of thousands of people tuned in to a livestreamed hearing Tuesday in which appeals court judges questioned a Trump administration lawyer on the president’s ban on travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries. “A hearing that in other circumstances might have been dry legal back and forth was a media event,” Bloomberg’s David Voreacos and Erik Larson reported. Here are recordings of the hearing, in .mp3 and YouTube form, as posted by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco:

You can follow the play-by-play here, in our live blog, and read our wrap-up story here. The three-judge panel may issue its decision this week.

To contact the author of this story: Elizabeth Titus in New York at etitus2@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Craig Gordon at cgordon39@bloomberg.net, Elizabeth Wasserman