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- Courts have temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order banning
people from seven majority-Muslim nations from entering the United States. Early
this morning, lawyers for the states of Washington and Minnesota filed a brief
with a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals arguing against restoring
Trump’s executive order banning people from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya,
Somalia and Yemen from entering the United States, saying that to reinstate the
ban would "unleash chaos again." On Sunday, a California appeals court sided
with a lower court in Seattle and refused to reinstate the travel ban. The
Seattle ruling, issued by U.S. District Court Judge James Robart on Friday,
imposed a nationwide temporary restraining order on the ban. Over the weekend,
the Department of Homeland Security began allowing visa holders affected by
Trump’s order to board U.S.-bound flights.
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