Supreme Court Drops Travel Ban Argument After Trump Revises Policy
- Lawyers were set to argue Oct. 10 on earlier temporary ban
- Justices hint they may let lower courts rule on policy first
Trump Travel Ban Now Includes Eight Countries
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The U.S. Supreme Court removed a scheduled clash over President Donald Trump’s travel ban from its argument calendar, raising the possibility it will step aside and let a lower court take the first look at a new version of the policy.
In a one-paragraph order Monday, the court told both sides to file briefs discussing whether a pending case over an earlier, temporary version is now legally moot. The revised policy, issued Sunday and affecting eight countries, supersedes a ban that had affected six mostly Muslim countries. The court had been scheduled to hear arguments Oct. 10 on the earlier policy.