Trump Administration Asks High Court to Drop Travel-Ban Case

By Greg Stohr, Bloomberg News

President Donald Trump’s administration told the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday it should dismiss its pending case over the president’s travel ban, an action that would let lower courts take the first look at the most recent version.

In a letter filed at the court’s request, the administration said two appeals it filed earlier this year will be legally moot in a matter of weeks as an earlier ban expires.

Two sets of challengers, however, urged the high court to decide the case, even while saying the justices may prefer to let lower courts hear arguments ...