Federal appeals court will not immediately reinstate executive orders on immigration

A federal appeals court has upheld the ruling that blocked President Trump’s executive order that banned immigrants and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries as well as refugees, shifting a week-long legal battle in favor of the immigrants, protesters, and Democrats who decried the ban. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco denied the Justice Department’s request to reinstate the orders early Sunday, just over a day after a judge in Seattle issued a temporary restraining order on the bans nationwide. Seattle Judge James Robart had ruled late Friday that “the executive order adversely affects the states’ residents in areas of employment, education, business, family relations and freedom to travel,” making the burden imposed by the order too great without sufficient evidence to support the administration’s national security claims.