Supreme Court Lets Full Trump Travel Ban Take Effect

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed the newest version of President Donald Trump’s travel ban to take effect pending appeal.

President Donald Trump speaks to the media during a meeting with congressional leadership in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on Nov. 28, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Credit: Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images)

This is the first time justices have allowed any edition of the ban to go forward in its entirety. It signals that some of the justices might be distinguishing the latest version from previous iterations and could be more likely, in the future, to rule in favor of the ban.

Issued in September, the third edition of the travel ban placed varying levels of restrictions on foreign nationals from eight countries: Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, Somalia and Yemen.

Lower courts in two separate challenges had partially blocked the ban.

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