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| The US supreme court handed a partial victory to the Trump administration on Monday as it lifted significant elements of lower court orders blocking the president’s controversial travel ban, which targets visa applicants from six Muslim-majority countries. | The US supreme court handed a partial victory to the Trump administration on Monday as it lifted significant elements of lower court orders blocking the president’s controversial travel ban, which targets visa applicants from six Muslim-majority countries. |
| The court said the ban on visitors from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen could be enforced as long as those people lack a “credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States”. | |
| The nation’s highest court agreed to hear arguments on the legality of Trump’s controversial immigration order – which also temporarily suspends the US refugee resettlement program – in autumn this year, paving the way for parts of the order to go into effect over the summer. | The nation’s highest court agreed to hear arguments on the legality of Trump’s controversial immigration order – which also temporarily suspends the US refugee resettlement program – in autumn this year, paving the way for parts of the order to go into effect over the summer. |
| Much of Trump’s executive order, a revised version of a first travel ban that was rolled out chaotically in January, had been stayed – temporarily blocked – by federal courts in Maryland and Hawaii, meaning the ban had never taken effect. These rulings were later upheld by federal appeals courts. | Much of Trump’s executive order, a revised version of a first travel ban that was rolled out chaotically in January, had been stayed – temporarily blocked – by federal courts in Maryland and Hawaii, meaning the ban had never taken effect. These rulings were later upheld by federal appeals courts. |
| The administration then appealed against these rulings to the supreme court, requesting that the nine justices temporarily revoke the lower court orders until a full hearing in October. | The administration then appealed against these rulings to the supreme court, requesting that the nine justices temporarily revoke the lower court orders until a full hearing in October. |
| The supreme court ruling issued on Monday only grants part of the administration’s requests. While the ban will now be allowed to go into effect against those with no relationship to the US, those with ties to the country – like many of the plaintiffs in the Hawaii and Maryland cases – will remain unaffected by the ban. | The supreme court ruling issued on Monday only grants part of the administration’s requests. While the ban will now be allowed to go into effect against those with no relationship to the US, those with ties to the country – like many of the plaintiffs in the Hawaii and Maryland cases – will remain unaffected by the ban. |
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