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Trump travel ban: Supreme Court allows key parts to go into effect

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WASHINGTON — Updated at 10:42 a.m. ET: The Supreme Court will allow part of the travel ban to take effect; some immigrants will be banned from entering the country.

Update at 10:29 a.m. ET: The  Supreme Court has ruled that it will hear arguments over President Donald Trump's second executive order banning travel to the United States.

Original story: The Supreme Court will rule on Monday whether to hear the challenge to President Donald Trump's executive order banning immigration from several predominately Muslim nations.

That executive order and the revised order that followed were both challenged in lower courts which ruled in favor of the states that brought suit, setting up today's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Here's what can happen Monday and some background on the executive order.
What is the ban?
The original ban was issued on January 27, 2017, and it:
Suspended the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for 120 days
Cut the number of refugees to 50,000 in 2017
Banned Syrian refugees from entry into the United States indefinitely
Barred from entering the United States for 90 days, immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries – Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen 
How was it revised?
The revised order – executive order 13780 – removed Iraq from the list of nations originally included in the ban, allowed refugees already approved by the State Department to enter the US and lifted the ban on Syrian refugees. It was to go into effect at midnight on March 16, 2017.
What will happen on Monday?
The court will do one of three things Monday. It will uphold Trump's ban; it will refuse to hear the case, or the justices will say they will hear the case in the fall when the court reconvenes.
What happens if the Court rules in Trump's favor?
If the court rules in favor of the administration, the ban can be implemented within 72 hours.
What happens if the justices refused to hear the case?
If the justices refuse to review the case, lower court rulings will stand, stopping the Trump administration from banning entry into the country based on the country a person immigrates from.
Will the Court hear arguments?
Justices could choose to hear arguments about the ban in the fall. In the meantime, the lower court orders would stand.
The background
President Trump signed an executive order that would ban refugees and immigrants from seven mostly Muslim countries from entering the United States for 90 days and would suspend a refugee program for 120 days. It also banned Syrian refugees from entering the country.
That order sparked protests around the country and around the world. The states of Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, New York, Massachusetts and Hawaii filed suits over the ban.
In three days, from January 28 to January 31, 50 cases were filed against the order
The courts granted a nationwide temporary restraining order that suspended much of the executive order. The Ninth District Court of Appeals upheld the restraining orders.
A revised order was issued in March. That order, like the first, ran into legal challenges. A judge in Hawaii suspended the revised order, ruling that should the ban go ahead, it would likely cause "irreparable injury" by violating protections granted by the First Amendment against religious discrimination.
The judge said tweets by Trump suggested that the ban was on the basis of religion, not national security as Trump had claimed.