politico
JOSH GERSTEIN
11/20/2017 09:31 PM EST
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https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/20/trump-travel-ban-supreme-court-252672?lo=ap_d1President Donald Trump's travel ban policy is back at the Supreme Court just weeks after the justices announced they were dumping a challenge to an earlier version of the administration's effort to crack down on immigration from countries deemed to be a terrorism threat.
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Monday evening to allow officials to implement the entirety of the revised policy Trump issued in September via a presidential proclamation. The third iteration of Trump's travel ban limits to varying degrees issuance of visas for travel to the U.S. by citizens of eight countries, six of which are majority Muslim.
Critics have said the policy is transparently a version of the Muslim ban Trump promised during last year's presidential campaign. Administration lawyers have insisted the directives are not related to that vow, although their arguments have sometimes been undermined by statements from the president that appeared to reinforce the notion of a connection
