The US Justice Department on Friday asked the Supreme Court to block a judge’s ruling that prevented President Donald Trump’s travel ban from being applied to grandparents of US citizens and refugees already being processed by resettlement agencies. The Supreme Court said then that the ban could take effect, but that people with a “bona fide relationship” to a US person or entity could not be barred. The conservative-leaning Supreme Court is not currently in session but the justices can handle emergency requests. If the court as a whole is asked to weigh in, five votes are needed to grant such a request. The court also agreed to hear oral arguments in the fall over whether the ban violates the US Constitution.

Source: Dhaka Tribune July 15, 2017 03:45 UTC