A U.S. Appeals Court on Monday upheld a lower court ruling
that blocks President Donald Trump’s executive order banning travellers
from six Muslim-majority countries.
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle was
the second appeals court to uphold an earlier court’s move to put the executive
order on hold while challenges against its constitutionality move forward.
The Trump administration had appealed to the court over the
earlier ruling by a federal judge in Hawaii.
The court had halted implementation of the entire executive
order, which also sought to block issuances of new refugee admissions from
around the world for 120 days.
A separate decision on the order in the Fourth Circuit has
already been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
[Daily Trust]
