{"id":292685,"date":"2017-02-10T07:41:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T07:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=292685"},"modified":"2017-02-10T07:41:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T07:41:19","slug":"trump-loses-bid-to-reinstate-travel-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/02\/trump-loses-bid-to-reinstate-travel-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump loses bid to reinstate travel ban"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A US appeals court has rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to reinstate his ban on citizens from seven mainly Muslim countries.<\/p>\n
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals said it would not block a lower-court ruling that halted the order.<\/p>\n
Mr Trump responded with an angry tweet saying national security was at risk and there would be a legal challenge.<\/p>\n
But the 3-0 unanimous ruling said the government had not proved the terror threat justified reviving the ban.<\/p>\n
The ruling means that people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen with visas can continue to enter the US.<\/p>\n
And refugees from around the world, who were also subject to a temporary ban, are no longer blocked either.<\/p>\n
The case is now likely to end up at the highest court, the US Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
What did the three appeal judges say?<\/strong><\/p>\n
They rejected the argument, made by the Justice Department on behalf of the US government, that the president had sole discretion to set immigration policy.<\/p>\n
The court also said there was “no evidence that any alien from any of the countries named in the order” had committed a terror attack in the US.<\/p>\n
They said both sides had made compelling cases.<\/p>\n
“On the one hand, the public has a powerful interest in national security and in the ability of an elected president to enact policies.<\/p>\n
“And on the other, the public also has an interest in free flow of travel, in avoiding separation of families, and in freedom from discrimination.”<\/p>\n
But they said Mr Trump’s executive order stripped foreign arrivals of their rights under the Constitution.<\/p>\n
What has the reaction been?<\/strong><\/p>\n
Mr Trump responded to the ruling by tweeting his dissent, and then gave an audio statement saying it was a political decision.<\/p>\n