The administration of President Donald Trump has asked the US Supreme Court to immediately reinstate a travel ban on individuals from six Muslim-majority countries until a ruling preventing its enforcement can be reheard by the country’s highest court.
The administration submitted a request to the Supreme Court on Thursday asking it to review a ruling made by the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals in May that declined to reinstate a controversial executive order blocking travellers from the six countries from entering the US.
In said ruling, Chief Judge Roger Gregory wrote that Mr Trump’s executive order “speaks with vague words of national security, but in context drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimination.”