The US Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by President Donald Trump to include grandparents and other relatives of US citizens in his travel ban on people from six predominantly Muslim nations.
The high court’s decision on Wednesday means that grandparents, grandchildren, uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces, cousins, and siblings-in-law are not included in the 90-day travel ban on people from Iran, Syria, Libya, Somalia and Sudan who want to enter the US.
But the Supreme Court judges also gave the Trump administration the right to enforce a separate travel ban on refugees, which could block entry of up to 24,000 refugees who have a connection to a US resettlement agency.
But in a partial win for Trump, the court gave the government more leeway to enforce a separate ban on refugees that was included in a March 6 executive order the president said was necessary for national security.
Last Friday, the White House asked the high court to overturn a…