Judge James Robart

Judge James Robart wore a bow tie to the hearing, opened with a joke and finished with a thunderclap.

The Department of Homeland Security complied with a judge's orders Saturday and stopped enforcing President Donald Trump's controversial entry ban, and the fast-moving legal dispute over the president's powers could land at the nation's highest court.

Donald Trump's administration on Saturday appealed a federal judge's order that blocked the US president's ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority nations.

A federal judge in Washington state declared Friday that he would temporarily block enforcement of President Donald Trump's controversial ban on entry to the United States, and government authorities immediately began taking steps that would allow those previously affected to travel, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter.

Judge James Robart wore a bow tie to the hearing, opened with a joke and finished with a thunderclap.

The Department of Homeland Security complied with a judge's orders Saturday and stopped enforcing President Donald Trump's controversial entry ban, and the fast-moving legal dispute over the president's powers could land at the nation's highest court.

Donald Trump's administration on Saturday appealed a federal judge's order that blocked the US president's ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority nations.

A federal judge in Washington state declared Friday that he would temporarily block enforcement of President Donald Trump's controversial ban on entry to the United States, and government authorities immediately began taking steps that would allow those previously affected to travel, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter.