Federal judge denies new challenge to travel ban

A federal judge in Hawaii on Thursday denied a request for an emergency stop to the Trump administration’s recently approved immigration order. The Supreme Court ruled last month that the ban on new visas for applicants from six majority-Muslim countries could go into effect, but people with a “bona fide relationship” to a person in the United States would be exempt. The White House interpreted “bona fide relationship” to mean a parent, spouse, child, adult son or daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, or sibling. Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chin objected to the administration’s omission of grandparents, aunts, and uncles from the list. But U.S. District Court Judge Derrick Watson said he would not overrule the Supreme Court, which allowed the travel ban to go into effect pending a full hearing in October of states’ lawsuits challenging the order.