Update: Supreme court ruling allows part of Trump’s travel ban take effect

The Supreme Court on Monday has allowed parts of President Donald Trump’s travel ban to go into effect and will hear oral arguments on the case this fall, according to CNN reports. The court will allow the ban to go into effect for foreign nationals who lack any “bona fide relationship with any person or entity... Read More

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The Supreme Court on Monday has allowed parts of President Donald Trump’s travel ban to go into effect and will hear oral arguments on the case this fall, according to CNN reports.

The court will allow the ban to go into effect for foreign nationals who lack any “bona fide relationship with any person or entity in the United States.” The court put the travel ban against citizens of the six majority-Muslim countries on hold as applied to non-citizens with relationships with persons or entities in the United States.

The court said examples of formal relationships include students accepted to US universities and an employee who has accepted a job with a company in the United States. This ruling is a partial victory for the Trump administration, which has been fighting lower court rulings that blocked the ban from taking effect.

The executive order bars people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from entering the US for a period of 90 days, outside of the “bona fide” relationship exception which could take effect 72 hours. Trump called the decision “a clear victory for our national security.”

“As President, I cannot allow people into our country who want to do us harm,” he added in a statement. “I want people who can love the United States and all of its citizens, and who will be hardworking and productive.”

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