The Donald Trump administration on Thursday appealed the ruling of a US federal judge who had a day prior maintained his freeze on the president’s revised travel ban.
The Justice Department’s filing means the case will land back at the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld a halt of Trump’s first travel ban before the US president revised it.
The appeal comes a day after US District Judge Derrick Watson in Hawaii dealt another blow to the White House, issuing a longer-lasting suspension of the president’s travel restrictions by changing it from a temporary restraining order into a preliminary injunction.