US Supreme Court partially allows Trump’s travel ban
Washington, June 26, 2017: The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the temporary bans on travelers from six Muslim-dominated countries and on all refugees imposed by President Donald Trump to become largely effective.
With this, the lower courts injunctions on the bans are reversed which had put them on complete hold.
But the legal battle over Trump’s executive order issued on March 6 will continue as the SC said it would hear arguments on the ban in October.
This keeps the possibility of the SC reversing its Monday order open if the challengers are able to prove the bans as illegal.
As of now, the SC has narrowed the scope of lower federal courts’ rulings which had blocked the much-publicised Presidential executive order issued soon after Trump became the US President.
The court ordered the travel ban would come into force “with respect to foreign nationals who lack any bonafide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.”
The lower courts injunctions against the ban will be valid only with respect to the US citizens having relationships with foreign nationals abroad.
The executive order on March 6 had blocked entry of travellers from Libya, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days and of all refugees for 120 days.
The order was issued amid growing apprehensions about attacks by Islamist militants.