Supreme Court Reinstates Trump Travel Ban

The judges’ decision allows exceptions that may permit scientists’ travel from the blocked countries.

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WIKIMEDIA, KJETIL REEThe US Supreme Court weighed in today (June 26) on President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration—commonly referred to as the “travel ban,” including by the president himself. Although enforcement of the latest iteration of the travel ban was postponed by injunctions granted by lower courts, today’s Supreme Court ruling temporarily reinstated a limited interpretation of the ban until the Court can consider it in its entirety this fall.

The Court said that students hailing from the six affected countries—Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen—who are admitted to US universities are exempt from the ban, as are professionals who have a “bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.”

“The students from the designated countries who have been admitted to the University of Hawaii have such a relationship with an American entity,” the decision reads, in reference to one of the lower court cases that prevented the ban from taking immediate effect. “So too would a worker who accepted an offer of employment from an American company or a lecturer invited to address an American audience.”

This would appear to open the door to some US academics from the ...

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