Supreme Court takes on Trump’s travel ban

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear the challenge to President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking travel and immigration from six Muslim-majority nations. The justices will hear arguments in April and issue a ruling by late June. This is the second time the high court has agreed to hear a challenge to Trump’s so-called travel ban. The president’s first executive order expired before the scheduled oral arguments but he quickly issued another one. Last month, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the second version of the order also violated federal immigration law. The Supreme Court subsequently struck down a temporary injunction against the second ban, allowing it to go into effect while the legal challenges played out. The contested policy applies to travelers from Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen. Plaintiffs did not challenge the ban against travelers from North Korea and some Venezuelan government officials and their families.