Opponents to President Donald Trump’s travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries on Thursday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the policy’s legality, even though it has been replaced with a revised plan, Reuters reports.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the state of Hawaii separately wrote to the Supreme Court, noting that justices should still hear the case, which had been scheduled for arguments next week, but was taken off their calendar after the administration announced the revised plan during last month.
Trump’s opponents on the matter described the new ban as an indefinite extension of the previous one, said individuals who sued have an interest in the expired measure being declared unlawful because they continue to be harmed by the new policy. The state of Hawaii also stressed that it intended to challenge Trump’s latest travel ban by seeking on Friday to amend its existing lawsuit against the previous one.
The Department of Justice asked the justices not to hear the case, to throw out earlier lower court rulings that had invalidated the ban and to order that the legal challenges be dismissed.
That ban originally targeted people from Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and Sudan. The new revised ban, announced in a presidential proclamation on September 24, removed Sudan from the list and blocked people from Chad and North Korea and certain government officials from Venezuela from entering the United States. Among the issues raised by opponents is whether the ban discriminated against Muslims in violation of the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition on the government favoring or disfavoring a particular religion, Reuters adds.
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