Only the Supreme Court Can Save Trump's Travel Ban Now

Updated at 5:48 p.m.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals largely upheld a lower court’s injunction that blocks the Trump administration from enforcing a key provision of the controversial travel ban on Thursday, handing the president a major legal defeat on his signature national-security policy.

Writing for the majority in International Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump, Chief Judge Roger Gregory said the president’s executive order violated the religious-freedom protections enshrined in the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause by unjustifiably targeting Muslims for discrimination.

“The question for this Court, distilled to its essential form, is whether the Constitution, as the Supreme Court declared in , remains ‘a law for rulers and people, equally