Trump takes travel-ban exemption fight back to SCOTUS
Source: Politico
By JOSH GERSTEIN 09/11/2017 12:22 PM EDT Updated 09/11/2017 12:26 PM EDT
The Trump administration is returning to the Supreme Court in an effort to overturn lower court rulings crimping the application of President Donald Trump's travel ban executive order. Justice Department lawyers asked the high court Monday to allow authorities to keep up a block on many refugees covered by Trump's ban.
However, the administration threw in the towel for now on efforts to insist that grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins of U.S. citizens should be covered by the ban despite the Supreme Court ordering an exemption for close family members.
A federal judge in Hawaii ruled against the federal government on both issues. Last week, a 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel declined to disturb that ruling.
The dispute taken to the justices Monday addresses how much of the travel ban can be enforced until the Supreme Court rules on the broader issues. The justices are scheduled to hear arguments Oct. 10 on a pair of cases related to the ban.
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