A split panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday curbed a national injunction against the Trump administration’s new asylum restrictions, only blocking the new policy within its own jurisdiction.

The judges stated that they would not issue a stay of U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar’s order last month temporarily stopping the new asylum rule. But the court’s majority found that the case’s record wasn’t strong enough to block the rule across the nation.

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