{"id":299545,"date":"2017-03-18T00:17:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T23:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-administration-appeals-judges-ruling-against-travel-ban\/"},"modified":"2017-03-18T00:17:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T23:17:08","slug":"trump-administration-appeals-judges-ruling-against-travel-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-administration-appeals-judges-ruling-against-travel-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration appeals judge\u2019s ruling against travel ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US Justice Department has filed an appeal notice against a ruling by a Maryland federal judge that partially blocked President Donald Trump\u2019s new travel ban.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department filed a notice of appeal with the district court in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Friday, two days after that court and one in Hawaii ruled that Trump\u2019s travel ban discriminates against Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>The department has not published any details about the notice, which is the step before a formal appeal lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>District judges in Hawaii and Maryland issued separate orders this week, freezing Trump&#8217;s efforts to close US borders to nationals of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>Although the ban was already restrained nationwide by District Judge Derrick Watson of Hawaii on Wednesday evening, the Maryland decision early on Thursday was another blow to Trump&#8217;s executive order.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.presstv.com\/photo\/20170317\/d3d43867-0c37-4e6c-bc5e-8da1ce6d520f.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Protesters gather at Washington Square Park in Lower Manhattan in New York City on Thursday on&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/03\/17\/514741\/Trump-appeals-block-of-revised-travel-ban\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Justice Department has filed an appeal notice against a ruling by a Maryland federal judge that partially blocked President Donald Trump\u2019s new travel ban. The Justice Department filed a notice of appeal with the district court in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Friday, two days after that court and one in Hawaii ruled that Trump\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":299546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-299545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}