Because the appeals court declined to intervene immediately, affected travelers can enter until at least until Monday. “With the fast briefing schedule the appeals court laid out, we do not plan to ask the Supreme Court for an immediate stay but instead let the appeals process play out,” Peter Carr said. The developments continued what has been a chaotic rollout of Trump’s order, made Jan. 27. “This ruling is another stinging rejection of President Trump’s unconstitutional Muslim ban,” said Omar Jadwat, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. Months later, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit agreed; months after that, the Supreme Court took up the issue.

Source: Washington Post February 05, 2017 06:01 UTC