Supreme court gives Trump a ‘Muslim ban’ victory
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THE US Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a victory yesterday by allowing temporary bans on travelers from six Muslim-majority countries and all refugees to go into effect for people with no connection to the US, while agreeing to hear his appeals.
The court, which narrowed the scope of lower court rulings that had blocked his March 6 executive order, said it would hear arguments on the legality of one of his signature policies in his first months as president in the court’s next term, which starts in October. The justices granted parts of his administration’s emergency request to put the order into effect immediately while the legal battle continues.
The court said the travel ban will go into effect “with respect to foreign nationals who lack any bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.”
The Supreme Court left the lower-court injunctions against the ban in place, but only with respect to the challengers to the ban themselves and others in similar circumstances, meaning they involve people in the US who have relationships with foreign nationals abroad and whose rights might be affected if those foreigners were excluded from entry.
But the court said the injunctions were too broad to also include barring enforcement of the ban against foreigners who have no connection to the US at all.
“Denying entry to such a foreign national does not burden any American party by reason of that party’s relationship with the foreign national,” the court said.
The court also said it would allow a 120-day ban on refugees entering the US to go into effect on the same grounds, allowing the government to exclude claimants who do not have any “bona fide relationship” with an American individual or entity.
The case is Trump’s first major challenge at the Supreme Court, where he restored a 5-4 conservative majority with the appointment of Neil Gorsuch, who joined the bench in April.
The March 6 order called for a 90-day ban on travelers from Libya, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen and a 120-day ban on all refugees entering the US to enable the government to implement stronger vetting procedures.
Trump issued the order amid rising international concern about attacks carried out by Islamist militants like those in Paris, London, Brussels, Berlin and other cities.
But critics have called the order an intolerant and un-American “Muslim ban.”
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