Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco came early Monday after the White House said it expected federal courts to reinstate the ban. If the appellate court reinstates the ban, the states say the "ruling would reinstitute those harms, separating families, stranding our university students and faculty and barring travel." They said Trump's ban would disrupt lives and cripple U.S. counterterrorism partnerships around the world without making the nation safer. That ruling last Friday prompted an ongoing Twitter rant by Trump, who dismissed U.S. District Court Judge James Robart as a "so-called judge" and his decision "ridiculous." The State Department said last week that as many as 60,000 foreigners from those seven countries had had their visas canceled.

Source: ABC News February 06, 2017 08:46 UTC