Almost a year after President Trump tried to bar travelers from some predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States, the Supreme Court announced Friday that it will consider a legal challenge to the third version of that ban.
Lower courts have blocked every attempt by the administration to keep out travelers from a list of countries in the name of national security, starting with the first version of the ban issued in an executive order in January 2017.
The justices agreed to hear the case of Hawaii v. Trump, which argues that the president exceeded his authority in attempting to ban, through proclamation, "over 150 million aliens from this country based on nationality alone. The immigration laws do not grant the President this power."
Read more at NPR: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/19/579266481/scotus-to-hear-challenge-to-trump-s-travel-ban