U.S. Supreme Court partly rejects Trump on travel ban
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Wednesday a bid by President Donald Trump to
block a judge's ruling that prevented his travel ban on people from six
Muslim-majority countries from being applied to grandparents of U.S. citizens.
But in a partial win for Trump, the court put on hold part of the judge's
ruling that would allow more people to enter the United States under a separate
ban on refugees if it went into effect.
The brief order said the court's decision is temporary while the San
Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals considers a separate appeal on
the same issue.
Three of the conservatives on the court of nine justices noted that they
would have granted Trump's request in full. The Trump administration last Friday
asked the high court to overturn a decision on Thursday by a U.S. district judge
in Hawaii, which limited the scope of the administration's temporary ban on
refugees and travelers from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
The latest round in the fight over Trump's March 6 executive order, which he
says is needed for national security reasons, began after the Supreme Court
intervened last month to partially revive the two bans, which were blocked by
lower courts.
The Supreme Court said then that the ban could take effect, but that people
with a "bona fide relationship" to a U.S. person or entity could not be barred.
The administration had narrowly interpreted that language, saying the ban
would apply to grandparents and other family members, prompting the state of
Hawaii to ask Hawaii-based U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson to expand the
definition of who could be admitted. He ruled for the state late on
Thursday.
Source: Reuters
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