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The Trump administration filed its final brief Wednesday urging the Supreme Court to reinstate the president's travel ban and hear its appeal of a lower court ruling blocking the executive order.
The administration filed the brief a day before the justices are scheduled to convene. It takes a vote of four justices to take up a case and a vote of five to halt the lower court rulings that blocked the ban nationwide.
The administration submitted its final brief ahead of a noon deadline Wednesday after parties fighting President Trump's March 6 executive action were ordered to file their responses to the government's request.