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Department of Justice Files Cert Petition in IRAP v. Trump

Quinta Jurecic
Friday, June 2, 2017, 8:05 AM

The Justice Department has filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in International Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump, requesting that the Supreme Court review the opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upholding the nationwide preliminary injunction against a key section of the travel ban. The petition is available in full below, along with stay applications filed by the government in both IRAP and Hawaii v. Trump, which is currently before the Ninth Circuit.

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The Justice Department has filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in International Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump, requesting that the Supreme Court review the opinion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upholding the nationwide preliminary injunction against a key section of the travel ban. The petition is available in full below, along with stay applications filed by the government in both IRAP and Hawaii v. Trump, which is currently before the Ninth Circuit.


Quinta Jurecic is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She was previously a fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at Lawfare.
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