The Supreme Court gave the Trump administration a partial victory on Wednesday, permitting it to enforce the temporary refugee ban announced in Executive Order 13780.
However, the Court denied a request to stay U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson’s order to broaden the definition of “bona fide relationship” exception to the travel ban to include grandparents and other more distant relatives, pending the outcome of the Department of Justice’s appeal of that decision to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
“The Government’s motion seeking clarification of our order of June 26,…