The Travel Ban Saga Continues in the Supreme Court

July 19, 2017

Robert Barnes in the Washington Post reports that the Supreme Court today entered an order in connection with its review of President Trump’s travel ban, saying the government may enforce tightened restrictions on refugees for now but also must allow into the country more travelers from six mostly Muslim countries who have family members already here.

The order in effect means that the administration must continue to accept those with grandparents, aunts and uncles and other relatives in the United States. The Trump administration had set a stricter interpretation of who could be admitted under an order in June.

The court said that it would not, for now, disturb the district court’s decision that expanded the definition of close family ties. But it granted the government’s request to put on hold a part of the decision that would have made it easier for more refugees to enter the country.

The unsigned order was one-paragraph in length, Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Neil M. Gorsuch-would have granted the administration’s request to put the entire order on hold.

Here is the order in its entirety:

(ORDER LIST: 582 U.S.)

WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 2017

ORDER IN PENDING CASE

16-1540

TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF U.S., ET AL. V. HAWAII, ET AL.

(16A1191)

The Government’s motion seeking clarification of our order

of June 26, 2017, is denied. The District Court order modifying

the preliminary injunction with respect to refugees covered by a

formal assurance is stayed pending resolution of the Government’s

appeal to the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Justice Thomas, Justice Alito, and Justice Gorsuch would

have stayed the District Court order in its entirety.

KJ

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