A San Francisco-based appeals court has rejected a request from the Department of Justice to restore US President Donald Trump’s executive order banning citizens of seven Muslim countries from entering the United States, setting up a potential showdown in the Supreme Court.
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled on Thursday that a nationwide restraining order against the president’s travel ban may continue while a federal judge considers a lawsuit over the policy.
"We hold that the government has not shown a likelihood of success on the merits of its appeal, nor has it shown that failure to enter a stay would cause irreparable injury," the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled.
Trump had said the Justice Department would succeed in appealing District Court Judge James Robart’s order which lifted his administration's travel ban on citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
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