Trump’s Travel Ban Faces Fresh Legal Jeopardy

In the months since June 2018, when the Supreme Court upheld the third version of President Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban, the matter has largely slipped from the headlines as the president’s political adversaries have turned their attention to other issues. But the ban—which, even in its revised form almost completely blocks travelers from seven potentially dangerous countries, five of them with Muslim-majority populations—remains a rare and blunt-force instrument in American immigration policy. It’s the law of the land. But even with the Supreme Court’s imprimatur, it may not be as bulletproof as the White House assumes