--- title: Read the Appeals Court Decision Blocking Donald Trump's Travel Ban description: A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled to uphold a lower court decision halting President Donald Trump’s travel ban canonical: https://time.com/4666545/read-court-decision-trump-travel-ban/ author: Abigail Abrams article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-10T00:32:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T10:42:33.804Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read the Federal Appeals Court Decision Refusing to Reinstate President Trump's Travel Ban og:description: The executive order will not take effect og:url: https://time.com/4666545/read-court-decision-trump-travel-ban/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2dbfc2fce3522eb7/6988b9a84dd2151826efdb4e/donald-trump-executive-order-travel-ban-muslims-court.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 6720 og:image:height: 3780 og:image:alt: President Trump Meets With Senators To Discuss His Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read the Federal Appeals Court Decision Refusing to Reinstate President Trump's Travel Ban twitter:description: The executive order will not take effect twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2dbfc2fce3522eb7/6988b9a84dd2151826efdb4e/donald-trump-executive-order-travel-ban-muslims-court.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read the Federal Appeals Court Decision Refusing to Reinstate President Trump's Travel Ban > Sponsored content. 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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a listening session urging senators to confirm Neil Gorsuch, Supreme Court nominee for Trump, not pictured, in the White House in Washington, D.C., Feb. 9, 2017. Jim Lo Scalzo—Bloomberg/Getty Images by [Abigail Abrams](https://time.com/author/abigail-abrams/) ## Abigail Abrams Feb 10, 2017 12:32 AM UTC A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled to uphold a lower court decision [halting President Donald Trump’s ban](http://fortune.com/2017/02/06/trump-travel-ban-supreme-court/) on travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries. The three-judge panel from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco made a unanimous decision to reject the Trump administration’s claim that they did not have the authority to review the president’s executive order, according to the [Associated Press](http://time.com/4666465/appeals-court-president-trump-travel-ban/). This means the ban will not take effect and travelers previously barred from entering the United States will now be allowed to do so. It is possible that the case will be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, and Trump [tweeted](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/829836231802515457) angrily in response to the ruling, indicating this might be his next step. 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