Responses Due Monday
Thursday night the Trump administration’s Justice Department requested the Supreme Court hear its appeal of an appellate court’s decision to uphold a U.S. District Court’s ruling that blocked the president’s Muslim travel ban from going into effect.
Late Friday afternoon the Supreme Court ordered both parties, the DOJ and the ACLU to submit responses, explaining their positions. Buzzfeed Legal Editor Chris Geidner calls the move “a sign the court could be considering taking relatively quick action on at least consideration of the Trump administration’s requests.”Â
Four of the Court’s justices would have to agree to hear the case for it to be accepted.
On May 25th, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the lower court’s ruling that blocked the Trump administration’s revised travel ban.
That ban called for a stop on immigration from six majority-Muslim nations. Given Donald Trump’s remarks as a candidate, judges repeatedly have held it is unconstitutional because its intent is to discriminate.
Both parties must respond by Monday, June 12.
The Court can agree to hear the appeal, but if it does it may also lift the block prohibiting immigration from those six countries. In other words, Trump’s Muslim ban, which is supported to last only 90-days, would go into effect.
Trump signed his initial Muslim ban January 27. Arguments by the 4th Circuit Court on this second version were heard May 8.Â
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