The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily restored President Donald Trump's controversial travel ban just days after a federal appeals court ruled against the administration, placing some restrictions on the temporary embargo.
According to The New York Post, Justice Anthony Kennedy ordered a stop to Thursday's 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, which decided against banning refugees who are accepted by U.S. resettlement agencies for 120 days.
The ruling had been expedited and was scheduled to go into effect as early as Tuesday.
The one-page Supreme Court ruling issued Monday puts the appeals court's decision on hold until both parties can submit written arguments to the court by Tuesday afternoon.
The Justice Department argues that the recent appeals court ruling "will disrupt the status quo and frustrate orderly implementation of the order's refugee provisions."
To this point, the Trump administration has aimed to ban as many as 24,000 refugees with connections to a resettlement agency.
The administration did not challenge the appeals court's unanimous ruling that grandparents, cousins and other close relatives should be excluded from the 90-day travel ban on visitors from six Muslim-majority countries.
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments as to whether the ban was constitutional in the first place on October 10. However, the temporary ban on travelers from Iran, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen is set to expire on September 24.
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Monday's high court decision is the latest in what has been a back-and-forth legal battle over Trump's polarizing ban since the President signed his initial executive order on Jan. 27.
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