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Appeals Court Upholds Block on Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban

HeadlineMay 26, 2017

In a major setback to President Trump, the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to reinstate Trump’s ban on all refugees and citizens of six majority-Muslim nations from entering the United States. In the majority decision, Chief Judge Roger Gregory wrote that Trump’s executive order uses “vague words of national security, but in context drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimination.” The Justice Department has vowed to challenge the appeals court ruling and take it to the Supreme Court.

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