US court denies request to reinstate Trump's travel ban

February 05, 2017 14:57

The United States Appeals Court has rejected justice department's request to reinstate President Donald Trump's immigration ban.

The Trump administration had appealed a ruling that temporarily halted the travel ban on citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, citing the president's "sovereign prerogative" to admit or exclude aliens.

Lawyers for the Department of Justice told the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit that the states of Washington and Minnesota should not have been allowed to challenge the ban, and that a judge was wrong to stop President's executive order, issued just more than a week ago.

The administration was fighting Seattle federal judge James Robart's decision on Friday night that imposed a temporary, nationwide halt to Trump's order barring refugees and those from seven majority-Muslim nations from entering the country.

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