Washington Dulles International Airport, Photo Joe Ravi via Wikimedia
A 10-3 federal appeals court ruling Thursday kept the freeze on travel ban against citizens of six Muslim-majority countries.
The court decision means core parts of the executive order, which has been facing court challenges since it was issued in March, will remain suspended indefinitely.
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, ruled that the executive order “speaks with vague words of national security, but in context drips with religious intolerance, animus and discrimination.”
The executive order issued by President Donald Trumpo barred citizens from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen from traveling to the United States for 90 days while it halted refugees’ entry for for 120 days.
“The evidence in the record, viewed from the standpoint of the reasonable observer, creates a compelling case that (the executive order’s) primary purpose is religious,” the ruling says, according to a CNN report.
