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| The Trump administration has appealed a federal court order issued in the state of Maryland that partially blocks the president’s revised travel ban. | The Trump administration has appealed a federal court order issued in the state of Maryland that partially blocks the president’s revised travel ban. |
| The Department of Justice’s acting solicitor general, Jeffrey Wall, informed Maryland’s southern district court in a filing on Friday that the government will challenge the ruling in the fourth circuit appeals court. | The Department of Justice’s acting solicitor general, Jeffrey Wall, informed Maryland’s southern district court in a filing on Friday that the government will challenge the ruling in the fourth circuit appeals court. |
| The Trump administration suffered a stinging blow to its plans to block visa applicants from six Muslim-majority countries and temporarily halt the US refugee resettlement program, after two federal courts – the other in Hawaii – issued temporary stays on the president’s executive order. | The Trump administration suffered a stinging blow to its plans to block visa applicants from six Muslim-majority countries and temporarily halt the US refugee resettlement program, after two federal courts – the other in Hawaii – issued temporary stays on the president’s executive order. |
| The Maryland order, issued by the district judge Theodore Chuang, only covers the part of Trump’s travel ban relating to visa issuances from the six countries. The temporary order issued in Hawaii, by the district judge Derrick Watson, covers two complete sections of the order. | |
| The president had already vowed to challenge the Hawaii ruling, which he branded an “unprecedented judicial overreach” at a rally shortly after the order was handed down on Wednesday evening. He told a crowd of supporters: “We’re going to fight this terrible rule, we’re going to take this case as far as it will go, including the supreme court. We’re going to win.” | |
| But the decision to appeal the Maryland order over the Hawaii ruling could indicate the DoJ’s resistance to appeal yet another decision against Trump’s travel ban in the ninth circuit appeals court, where a challenge to the Hawaii ruling would be heard. Last month the ninth circuit unanimously ruled to enforce a temporary nationwide restraining order against Trump’s first order, which was chaotically rolled out and subject to a number of legal challenges across the country. | |
| Trump’s second travel ban, which had been due to go into effect just hours before the Hawaii ruling, had been designed to avoid some of the legal complaints of the first order. |