Chris Kleponis/DPA/PA Images. All rights reserved.The Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals has declined to reinstate president Trump’s executive order which temporarily bans people from seven Muslim-majority countries. The unanimous decision to uphold the suspension of his executive order is the most significant legal setback to Trump’s attempt to resume the ban.
The court wrote: “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, and we therefore deny its emergency motion for a stay."
Trump tweeted his response, capitalised, promising to challenge the refusal:
