President Donald Trump suffered another legal setback on Monday as a second federal appeals court refused to revive his travel ban on people entering the United States from six Muslim-majority nations in a dispute headed to the US Supreme Court. The San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals used narrow grounds to reject the Trump administration's bid to undo a Hawaii federal judge's decision blocking the temporary ban. The 9th Circuit upheld the block on Trump's three-month travel ban for the six countries and four-month suspension of all refugee admissions. The administration said the travel ban was needed to allow time to implement stronger vetting procedures. Hawaii's court papers mentioned a series of Twitter posts Trump made on June 5, after the administration sought Supreme Court intervention.

Source: The Star June 12, 2017 19:30 UTC