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SCOTUS Travel Ban ruling a partial win for Trump

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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WOWO): The US Supreme Court is allowing a limited version of President Trump’s 90-day travel ban on six predominantly Muslim countries to take effect, while also pushing arguments in the case to October.

The Trump administration is seeing this as a win, and IPFW political science professor Mike Wolf says they’re right… sort of.

“The Court certainly recognized the executive power to make such decisions, but they very much contained it,” Wolf says.

The Court said the ban could be enforced on visitors from Libya, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Syria as long as they don’t have “a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.”

“If (Trump) wanted that, he could have put that in the order to begin with,” Wolf adds, pointing out that the definition of “credible relationships” will be the sticking point:

“(9/11 attack ringleader) Mohamed Atta had a credible relationship, with a flight school. So none of the questions about this bill are necessarily resolved yet.”

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