The back and forth tussle between opponents and backers of President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban is continuing this morning, with a federal appeals court shutting down the Trump administration’s appeal of a lower court’s federal judge’s ruling against the ban.

Seattle’s Federal Judge James Robart, a conservative appointee of President George W. Bush who was confirmed in the Senate by a unanimous vote in his favor, ruled against the ban late on Friday. Robart was presiding over a lawsuit brought against the Trump administration by the states of Washington and Minnesota.

His ruling places a temporary halt on the ban until at least next Monday as the courts further considers the states’ suit. The suit will focus on the impact the ban has on those who already had legal rights to be in the U.S. prior to the ban and are now in jeopardy because of their national origin.

The Trump administration did not take the ruling against them in stride, with the president tweeting all day long on Saturday about how awful or whatever Robart was to rule against the ban — and in favor of the law, but the law has never been and is not about to become a concern to the Trump administration.

Trump claimed on Twitter multiple times on Saturday that Robart’s ruling, in putting a stay on the ban, endangered national security; however, there remains no evidence to back up that claim. No person from the nations that Trump’s Muslim ban targets has at any point in the past several decades carried out a terror attack in the United States. The nations that the 9/11 hijackers were from aren’t even covered by the ban.

As a more substantive response to Robart, the Trump administration’s Justice Department filed an appeal challenging Robart’s ruling late Saturday. However, that appeal, as mentioned, was denied.

As a follow up to the Trump administration’s pro-ban appeal, the appeals court called on the opponents of the Trump administration to file a response to their appeal by roughly 3 AM on Monday, according to The Washington Post. The Trump administration is to respond to that filing by 6 PM on Monday.

The case, marking the most successful legal challenge against Trump to date, may soon reach the Supreme Court. A spokesman for the Justice Department said that Trump administration lawyers plan to go through the appeals process before making a decision as to whether or not to advance the case to the Supreme Court. Mind you, as the nation’s top court presently stands, it’s evenly divided between four left-leaning and four right-leaning Justices. It’s thus not immediately clear what the outcome would be should the court take up the issue of Trump’s Muslim ban.

Trump’s ban sparked nationwide protests shortly after it was signed into on January 27. Protests have continued basically ever since, and have even popped up overseas in places such as London and Paris. Opponents of the ban continue to point out that the only actual substance to the ban is a legalized form of discrimination against Muslims, since there remains no evidence that people from the seven countries that Trump targeted pose any actual threat to the United States.

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