Supreme Court Allows Trump Travel Ban to Take Effect
Judge Chuang limited his injunction to exclude people without "a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person
or entity in the United States," quoting from a Supreme Court order issued in June concerning the second travel ban.
The Supreme Court’s orders effectively overturned a compromise in place since June, when the court said travelers with connections
to the United States could continue to travel here notwithstanding restrictions in earlier version of the ban.
In a pair of filings in the Supreme Court, Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco said Mr. Trump had acted under his broad constitutional
and statutory authority to control immigration when he issued a new proclamation in September announcing the new travel restrictions.
Maryland wrote that A nationality-based travel ban against eight nations consisting of over 150 million people is unprecedented,
Similarly, Judge Derrick K. Watson of the Federal District Court in Honolulu found
that the September proclamation "suffers from precisely the same maladies as its predecessor," adding that it "plainly discriminates based on nationality" in violation of federal law "and the founding principles of this nation." The administration has appealed both decisions to federal appeals courts in Seattle and Richmond, Va.