Washington:
The US Supreme Court has quashed
an appeal that had blocked a now-expired version of Donald
Trump's anti-immigration decree.
The decision was mostly symbolic victory to the
Republican president because the legal context had become
outdated; the second version of the decree prohibited for 90
days entry into the United States to travelers from six
Muslim-majority countries.
The March 6 decree, opposed by the states of Maryland and
Hawaii, was suspended. Courts of appeal, respectively, in Richmond, Virginia and
San Francisco, California, upheld the suspension decision in
May and June.