Trump asks Supreme Court to reinstate Muslim travel ban

President Donald Trump's administration asked the US Supreme Court on Thursday to reinstate its temporary ban on travellers from six Muslim majority nations despite repeated setbacks in the lower courts The administration said the travel ban was needed so it could evaluate existing screening methods protocols and set new ones. Given the case's high-profile nature, the full Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia heard the arguments last week -- bypassing the usual initial three-judge panel -- for the first time in a quarter of a century.

Last Chance: Trump Turns to US Supreme Court to Save Travel Ban

US President Trump's immigration ban has sparked mass protests, such as this rally at Chicago O'Hare International Airport on January 28, 2017. The Justice Department on Thursday night asked the US Supreme Court to immediately reinstate President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel from six Muslim-majority countries.

Trump attacks advisers over travel ban

President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revive his plan to temporarily ban travelers from six Muslim-majority nations after it was blocked by lower courts that found it was discriminatory. US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has attacked his own administration for trying to push a "watered down, politically correct version" of his stalled travel ban through the courts.

Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court To Reinstate Travel Ban

Lawyers at the Department of Justice filed two emergency applications with the nation's highest court asking it to block two lower court rulings that the implementation of his second travel ban, which also halted refugees seeking to enter the U.S. The filing asks for a stay of a ruling made last week by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit and another stay of an injunction The Justice Department has asked for expedited processing of the petitions so the court can hear the case when it begins a new session in October.

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The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to let it move forward with the president's plan to temporarily ban citizens from six mostly Muslim countries, elevating a divisive legal battle involving national security and religious discrimination to the nation's highest court. Department of Justice lawyers asked the court to overturn a decision of the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit that kept in place a freeze on President Donald Trump's revised ban.

Texas House Votes to Ban Abortion Procedure

Texas' Republican-controlled Legislature has advanced tough new limits on abortion , hitting back at a United States Supreme Court decision last summer that struck down most of the sweeping restrictions on the procedure that the state approved four years ago. The Texas House voted 96 to 47 late Friday on legislation that bans a commonly used second-trimester abortion procedure, known as dilation and evacuation, similar to laws that courts have blocked in Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma.

U.S. Supreme Court lifts stay of execution for Alabama prisoner

Thomas Arthur is seen in a police photo released May 23, 2017 by the Alabama Department of Corrections in Montgomery, Alabama, U.S. Courtesy of Alabama Department of Corrections/Handout via Death row inmate Tommy Arthur, scheduled to be executed November 3, 2016, is seen in an undated picture from the Alabama Department of Corrections. Alabama Department of Corrections/Handout via Reuters The U.S. Supreme Court lifted a temporary stay for the planned execution on Thursday of a 75-year-old Alabama prisoner who has spent more than three decades on death row and faced seven previous execution dates.

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In another legal setback for President Donald Trump, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals refused on Thursday to lift an injunction against his revised travel and refugee order, preventing the White House from suspending new visas for people from six Muslim-majority countries, as this decision took another step on the way to a likely showdown on the matter at the U.S. Supreme Court. As in earlier rulings, the judges cited the President's own words calling for a "Muslim ban," ruling that the order was basically an effort to target "Muslims for exclusion from the United States."

3 Way to Protect Queer Kids in Betsy DeVos’s America

LGBTQ youth are not safe in school - and attempts at protecting them continue to be hotly contested. In March, the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear the appeal of a lower court's ruling in favor of Gavin Grimm, a transgender boy who petitioned for access to the boys' bathroom at his high school, and sent it back to the lower court for further consideration.

Supreme Court Decision Limits Venue Statute in Patent Litigation

On May 22, 2017, in a highly-anticipated decision that could dramatically alter the landscape of patent litigation, the United States Supreme Court held that the "resides" prong of the patent venue statute, 28 U.S.C. 1400 , dictates that patent cases must be filed in the state where the defendant company is incorporated. In doing so, the Court reversed a long-standing Federal Circuit rule allowing a patent holder to file suit anywhere that a defendant does business, and reinstated a more restrictive standard from a previous Supreme Court decision.

Trump’s $2 TRILLION ‘Bernie Madoff-Level Budget Fraud’: ‘BradCast’ 5/23/2017

Global Seed Vault flooded by melting perma-frost; Antarctica going green ; Swiss vote to accelerate renewables; PLUS : Trump's budget slashes, burns environment... Guest: Salon's Heather Digby Parton; Also: Two big election-related SCOTUS decisions, & this week's US House Special Election in MT... The VP claims he was kept in the dark by Team Trump on key issues regarding disgraced former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn. But is his alibi even plausible?... Looks like it's double, double toil and trouble for Trump once again this week in PDiddie's collection of the week's best political toons... Guest: Former Asst.