LOS ANGELES: A U.S. court on Thursday slapped down Donald Trump’s effort to bar refugees and nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries from US soil, dealing the new president and his controversial law-and-order agenda a major defeat.
The ruling from the federal appeals court in San Francisco on Trump’s executive order, issued on Jan 27 with no prior warning and suspended a week later, capped a turbulent first three weeks of the Republican’s presidency.
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