Donald Trump seeks 'tougher' travel ban, expedited hearing

Donald Trump has promised to impose travel restrictions on immigrants to the US "in any event", as the Supreme Court considers his failed attempt to introduce a ban on people from some Muslim-majority countries. The US President pressed his controversial travel ban plans on Monday morning following the weekend terror attack in London Bridge, calling for an expedited judicial review and urging his administration to seek a tougher version of the proposal.

"The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to SC." Trump, referring to the US Supreme Court, wrote in a series of tweets on the issue.

"The Justice Dept. should ask for an expedited hearing of the watered down Travel Ban before the Supreme Court - & seek much tougher version!" he wrote.

Meanwhile, Trump has doubled down on his criticism of London Mayor Sadiq Khan's response to the terror attacks in London over the weekend, attacking him for a misconstrued statement telling people that there is "no reason to be alarmed". Contrary to Trump's portrayal of that statement, Mr Khan had actually said that people in London shouldn't be alarmed by visibly increased police presence in the city, not that they should not be alarmed by the attacks.

Khan said that Trump's had "deliberately" taken his comments "out of context", which Trump tweeted was a "pathetic excuse". In Trump's eyes, the media covering the London attacks were "working hard to sell" Khan's "excuse," he wrote in a Tweet. The President sent out a series of tweets following the attack in which he called for the implementation of his controversial travel ban, even though it was not immediately clear how, if at all, a ban would be able to stop a similar attack in the US. Those tweets berating Khan have been widely condemned, and are in contrast to a statement from the US Embassy in London.

Trump's early morning tirade on Twitter attacked the US courts that have so far blocked both of his controversial bans, criticised his own Justice Department for not sticking with his original

travel ban.