His statement comes after the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday declined to reinstate Trump's executive order, arguing that he did not provide enough justification and exceeded authority delegated to him by Congress.
It is a further legal setback for the president's efforts to get the ban he promised his supporters. White House spokesman Sean Spicer said the administration is reviewing Monday's decision and expressed continued confidence that the order is fully lawful and ultimately will be upheld by the Supreme Court.
The recent attacks confirm that the threat to the nation is immediate and real, he said.
Hawaii's court papers mentioned a series of Twitter posts that Trump wrote on June 5, after the administration sought Supreme Court intervention.
Trump signed his first executive order on travel a week after he took office in January.
At issue is Trump's proposal to ban most travel from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days and suspend the entire refugee program for 120 days. It cited the president's campaign statements calling for a "total and complete shutdown" on Muslims entering the U.S.
Judges Michael Hawkins, Ronald Gould and Richard Paez - all appointed by President Bill Clinton - said the travel ban violated immigration law by discriminating against people based on their nationality.
The decision by a unanimous three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals helps keep the travel ban blocked and deals Trump a second big legal defeat on the policy in less than three weeks.
Because of the conflict with immigration law, the judges said they didn't need to consider whether it also violated the Constitution's prohibition on the government favoring or disfavoring any religion. However, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals determined that "the Government's asserted national security interest in enforcing [the travel ban] appears to be a post hoc, secondary justification for an executive action rooted in religious animus and meant to bar Muslims from this country".
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The Ninth Circuit did, however, vacate part of the injunction allowing the government to perform review of internal vetting procedures for these travelers.
Trump as said the orders are necessary to protect Americans from terrorism and campaigned on a pledge to institute "extreme vetting" of foreigners seeking to enter the country. It was the worst mass shooting in United States history.
The White House argues that the policy was meant to serve a national security interest.
The president then rewrote his executive order rather than appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court at that time.
"Although the executive order has broad discretion over the admission and exclusion of aliens, that discretion is not boundless", the court said. The second order was meant to overcome the legal issues posed by the original ban, but it was blocked by judges before it could go into effect on March 16.
"Indeed, the president recently confirmed his assessment that it is the "countries" that are inherently risky, rather than the 180 million individual nationals of those countries", wrote the court in its opinion.
The matter was already headed for the Supreme Court, as another federal appeals court had already ruled against the Republican president, and the Justice Department had asked the high court to hear the case.
That issue wasn't before the 4th Circuit, because in the Maryland case it considered, the lower court judge had not struck down the refugee program's suspension.
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