Trump Appeals Travel Ban To Supreme Court

The Trump administration has filed a petition with the Supreme Court, asking it to reinstate the executive order that put a ban on travel to the U.S. from six majority-Muslim countries. Two lower courts in Hawaii and Maryland reversed the ban. The March order “suspends for 90 days the entry of foreign nationals from six countries that sponsor or shelter terrorism (Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen),” the White House wrote in its filing. It claims the Constitution gives the president “broad authority to prevent aliens abroad from entering this country when he deems it in the nation’s interest.” The ban the White House will defend is a revised version of its initial bill, which he issued his first week in office. That ban created chaos at airports as officials grappled with its unclear instructions.