Article snippet: President Trump's second travel ban is still being largely blocked by the courts after the latest decision was handed down today. The 9th Circuit decided to uphold in large part the injunction on the second iteration of the travel ban, according to the ruling. This revised version of the executive order suspended refugee admissions for 120 days and barred people from six majority-Muslim nations from entering the United States for 90 days while the administration reviewed vetting procedures. A temporary restraining order was placed on this iteration in March in a case filed by the state of Hawaii. "The president must make a sufficient finding that the entry of these classes of people would be 'detrimental to the interests of the United States,'" today's ruling states. The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit today ruled unanimously that the president's overhauled travel ban "exceeded the scope of the authority delegated to him by Congress" under federal immigration law, because the executive order did not contain "a sufficient justification to suspend the entry of more than 180 million people on the basis of nationality." The Hawaii court injunction, which found that the executive order likely ran afoul of the establishment clause of the Constitution, prohibited the administration from enforcing the two core provisions of the policy: a 90-day suspension of entry from nationals of six designated countries and a 120-day ... Link to the full article to read more