U.S. appeals court upholds suspension of Trump travel ban
09 February 2017 |
10:18 am
President Donald Trump was handed another legal defeat on Thursday when the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to uphold a lower court’s decision to block his controversial travel ban from seven Muslim-majority countries.
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