(25 Apr 2018) Opponents of the Trump administration's travel ban spoke to reporters after the Supreme Court heard both sides of the issue Wednesday morning. It's the first Trump policy to undergo a full-blown Supreme Court review.
"We have a proud history of welcoming immigrants to our islands, and they have been invaluable in shaping our story," said Hawaii's Solicitor General Clyde Wadsworth.
He was joined outside by Neal Katyal, who represented Hawaii before the justices.
"Our nation was founded on a different premise on the idea that you could come to its shores and be treated fairly and our immigration laws reflect that, most powerfully in 1965 in saying there shall be no nationality based discrimination no nationality based discrimination," Katyal said.
"That's what the president's order does."
Earlier, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy both signalled support for the travel policy in arguments Wednesday at the high court.
The ban's challengers almost certainly need one of those two justices if the court is to strike down the ban on travellers from several mostly Muslim countries.
The justices voted in December to allow the policy to take full effect pending their full consideration. Wednesday was the first time they took it up in open court.
The Trump administration is asking the court to reverse lower court rulings that would strike down the ban.
The justices are looking at the third version of a policy that Trump first rolled out a week after taking office, triggering chaos and protests across the U.S. as travellers were stopped from boarding international flights and detained at airports for hours.
The first version was blocked by courts and withdrawn. Its replacement was allowed to take partial effect, but expired in September.
The current version is indefinite and now applies to travellers from five countries with overwhelmingly Muslim populations - Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. It also affects two non-Muslim countries, blocking travellers from North Korea and some Venezuelan government officials and their families. A sixth majority-Muslim country, Chad, was removed from the list this month after improving "its identity-management and information sharing practices," Trump said in a proclamation.
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