Supreme Court travel ban case could test Trump's reach

The administration has promised a high court appeal of a ruling blocking the president's ban on visitors from six majority Muslim countries.

[...] the justices must agree to intervene — something they'll probably do considering the importance of the issue.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the travel policy Thursday, saying that Trump's comments helped show that the policy was "steeped in animus and directed at a single religious group."

Kennedy sided with the other conservative justices in favor of the Obama administration and against U.S. citizen Fauzia Din.

Judges must "step away from our deferential posture and look behind the stated reason for the challenged action" when a lawsuit makes a strong argument about bad faith motivating the policy, Gregory wrote, citing Kennedy's opinion.