The Supreme Court has dealt President Donald Trump’s government with a fresh setback, saying its controversial travel ban cannot be applied to grandparents and other close relatives of people living in the United States just for now.
The court yesterday accepted a Hawaii federal judge’s ruling last week that the Trump administration had too narrowly defined what constitutes “close family relationships” to determine exceptions to the ban on travellers from six mainly Muslim countries Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
That left in place Judge Derrick Watson’s wider definition, which includes grandparents, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and cousins of people living in the United States.
But in its brief order, the court backed the Trump administration by staying the part of Watson’s ruling that would have expanded exemptions to its 120-day ban on all refugees.
The order said the Supreme Court’s ruling is temporary, pending a federal appeals court’s review of the issues.
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