Criminal Justice & the Rule of Law

9th Circuit Denies Stay of Temporary Restraining Order in Trump Travel Ban Case

Quinta Jurecic
Thursday, February 9, 2017, 6:16 PM

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has denied the government's motion for an emergency stay of a temporary restraining order in Washington v. Trump, regarding the President's executive order banning entry into the United States from seven majority-Muslim countries. The court's decision is available here and is also included below. We will provide analysis of the decision shortly.

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has denied the government's motion for an emergency stay of a temporary restraining order in Washington v. Trump, regarding the President's executive order banning entry into the United States from seven majority-Muslim countries. The court's decision is available here and is also included below. We will provide analysis of the decision shortly.


Quinta Jurecic is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at Lawfare. She previously served as Lawfare's managing editor and as an editorial writer for the Washington Post.

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