A federal appeals court handed the Trump administration another defeat over its revised travel ban Thursday, ruling that grandparents, cousins and similarly close relations of people already in the U.S. should not be prevented from coming to the country. The appeals panel wrote that under typical court rules, its ruling would not take effect for at least 52 days. "The Supreme Court has stepped in to correct these lower courts before, and we will now return to the Supreme Court to vindicate the executive branch's duty to protect the nation," the agency said in a statement. The Supreme Court said in June that President Donald Trump’s 90-day ban on visitors from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen can be enforced pending arguments scheduled for October. The appeals court also upheld the Hawaii judge's ruling that refugees from those countries who had been accepted by a resettlement agency should not be subject to the ban.

Source: Fox News September 07, 2017 23:08 UTC