Trump administration asks Supreme Court to revive 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.
The fight over U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed travel ban is heading for the Supreme Court.
The administration on Thursday asking the justices to revive an executive order to temporarily barring travelers from six Middle Eastern and North African nations after it was blocked by lower courts
'There's never been a case like this. Never in our history, would the president of the United States so nakedly try to go after, try to go after, to single out a single religion.'
Opponents of the ban say it discriminates against Muslims, and last month a federal appeals court in Virginia agreed.
The panel ruled that Donald Trump's campaign statements can be taken as a signal that his real intent is to bar members of the Muslim faith.
'Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.'
The White House says the order is a matter of urgent national security, claiming all travel from the six nations needs to be halted for 90 days so that new vetting measures can be put in place. It points out that the wording makes no mention of religion and that courts should judge it based only by what's written on the page. The Administration is asking the court to let the ban go into effect while the arguments over its constitutionality proceed.
A first attempt at a travel ban brought massive protests to U.S. airports, and was blocked by judges. A second attempt by the administration was also blocked before it could go into effect.
The nine-justice Supreme Court has a 5-4 conservative majority, with conservative Anthony Kennedy occasionally siding with the court's four liberal justices. Another justice, Neil Gorsuch, was appointed by Trump earlier this year.
The court could act on the emergency application within the next two weeks.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which is a plaintiff in the case, tweeting, 'We've beat this hateful ban and are ready to do it again.'