US court rejects immediate overturn of halt of Trump travel ban

Demonstrators protest against President Donald Trump's travel ban as they rally outside th
AFP

Los Angeles (AFP) – A US federal appeals court early Sunday rejected a request by the Department of Justice to immediately reinstate President Donald Trump’s travel ban.

Trump’s administration had made the request with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals as part of an appeal against a lower court order temporarily suspending the travel ban on citizens from seven mainly Muslim countries.

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