U.S. Sup. Ct.;
16-1436

The U.S. Supreme Court granted petitions for writ of certiorari. The court held that the injunctions barring enforcement of President Trump's March 6, 2017, executive order on immigration should be stayed in part, except as to foreign nationals with a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.

On January 27, 2017, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that, among other things, suspended for 90 days immigrant and nonimmigrant entry into the United States of nationals from seven majority-Muslim countries (EO-1). When enforcement of EO-1 was stalled by litigation, President Trump, on March 6, 2017, issued a revised executive order (EO-2) that, among other things, imposed the 90-day ban on travel for nationals of six majority-Muslim countries (§2(c)), suspended decisions on applications for refugee status and travel of refugees into the U.S. under the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for 120 days (§6(a)), and imposed a cap on the number of refugees permitted to enter the country in fiscal year 2017 (§6(b)). The International Refugee Assistance Project challenged the revised order, as did the State of Hawaii.