Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Drop Travel-Ban Case
- Administration says lower courts should look at new order
- Opponents say Supreme Court should keep case and issue ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court stands in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, June 27, 2016. A divided U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas law that had threatened to close three-quarters of the states abortion clinics by putting new requirements on facilities and doctors.
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President Donald Trump’s administration told the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday it should dismiss its pending case over the president’s travel ban, an action that would let lower courts take the first look at the most recent version.
In a letter filed at the court’s request, the administration said two appeals it filed earlier this year will be legally moot in a matter of weeks as an earlier ban expires.