WASHINGTON: A second U.S. federal judge has blocked parts of President Donald Trump’s latest travel ban on people entering the United States from eight countries, dealing another legal blow to the administration’s third bid to impose travel restrictions. Trump’s ban would have taken effect on Wednesday but was blocked on Tuesday by a U.S. federal judge in Hawaii in a separate challenge. “Like the two versions before it, President Trump’s latest travel ban is still a Muslim ban at its core. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson in Honolulu said Hawaii was likely to succeed in proving that the policy violated federal immigration law. Unlike the Hawaii ruling, the Maryland decision would lift the restrictions only for people with family connections to the United States.

Source: Libya Today October 18, 2017 13:52 UTC