U.S. to Seek Top Court Review of Second Ruling on Travel Ban
(Bloomberg) —The Trump administration said it wants the U.S. Supreme Court to review this week’s appeals court ruling blocking the president’s travel ban, proposing a briefing schedule that would let the high court act on the case before its term ends this month.
A federal appeals court Monday became the second to rule against the administration on the ban, which would suspend entry into the U.S. by people from six mostly Muslim countries. The administration is already asking the Supreme Court to review the earlier appeals court ruling and to let the ban go into effect immediately.
In a letter to the court, acting U.S. Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall said the government should be allowed to file two additional briefs, with the second one due June 21. A lawyer for Hawaii, which is challenging the ban, filed his own letter urging a slightly shorter briefing schedule that would include only one more administration brief.
Monday’s ruling by a federal appeals court in San Francisco said President Donald Trump’s order violated federal immigration law, which prohibits nationality-based discrimination and requires the president to follow a specific process when setting an annual cap on the admission of refugees.
An appeals court based in Richmond, Virginia, ruled on May 25 that Trump intended to discriminate against Muslims in his executive order.
Trump said in his earlier Supreme Court appeal that the policy “is not a so-called ‘Muslim ban.’” The president is asking the justices to decide before leaving for their three-month recess at the end of June whether they will hear the appeal.
To contact the reporter on this story: Greg Stohr in Washington at gstohr@bloomberg.net To contact the editors responsible for this story: Kevin Whitelaw at kwhitelaw@bloomberg.net Laurie Asseo, C. Thompson
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