Reprinted from The Hill, By Brooke Seipel – 06/01/17 11:19 PM EDT –
The Trump administration late Thursday asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its travel ban that would block citizens from six Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S.
The administration filed two emergency applications with the Supreme Court seeking to block lower-level court rulings that had previously halted Trump’s March 6 executive order, Reuters reported Thursday.
The revised order banned citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from entering the country for 90 days, as well as temporarily suspending the refugee program, while the government implemented a stricter visa screening process.
In a statement, Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said the department had “asked the Supreme Court to hear this important case and [is] confident that President Trump’s executive order is well within his lawful authority to keep the nation safe and protect our communities from terrorism.
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