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The president of the United States has called for an immediate review of his travel ban, saying the president has “made a lot of mistakes” and the government should revisit the policy.
“I want to make sure that the travel ban is enforced,” Mr Trump said Friday in the Rose Garden of the White House.
“It should be done quickly and thoroughly.”
Mr Trump issued the travel order on Friday, which he said was needed to keep people safe from the “evil menace of radical Islamic terrorism”.
The order has been condemned by human rights groups, business leaders and other groups as discriminating against Muslims.
But the White Houses lawyers have said the ban does not discriminate against people based on religion, and the court battle over it has been fraught.
The administration says the ban has been in place for nearly a year, and has a 60 per cent chance of being upheld by the Supreme Court.
What does the travel and entry ban mean?
The US Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in the case on Friday morning.
If the court upholds the ban, it will mean that Mr Trump’s order would be automatically revoked and would have to be rewritten.
Mr Trump will also be forced to consider whether to extend his travel and border restrictions beyond the 90 days he had promised, or to allow a 60-day delay.
The Supreme Court has also said that Mr Bush’s travel and immigration restrictions were not valid under the Constitution.
How will the legal battle play out?
If the justices rule against Mr Trump, the ban would be put on hold until a lower court decides whether it is unconstitutional.
The court’s ruling is likely to be appealed to the Supreme court.
If it does not, Mr Trump could ask the Supreme for a stay of the court ruling.
Mr Bush said in 2002 that the ban was “one of the worst and most extreme immigration restrictions in history” and that it “created chaos in our nation”.
What is a ‘Muslim ban’?
The travel ban seeks to restrict immigration from several Muslim-majority countries.
It excludes Syrian refugees and citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
It also suspends the entry of Syrian refugees indefinitely, indefinitely blocks entry to the United Kingdom and blocks entry for all refugees for 120 days.
The travel order also bans travel from Syria indefinitely.
Mr Carter, Mr Bush and Mr Obama’s administrations argued that the order was necessary to protect Americans from terrorism and that the restrictions would help prevent a pandemic.
What are the other restrictions?
The order also suspents US entry for refugees from Syria and indefinitely blocks refugees from Iran, Somalia and Sudan.
It bans Syrian refugees from entering the United State indefinitely.
The order prohibits foreign nationals from entering for 90 days, and bans all refugees from Yemen for 120 months.
Mr Obama also said the policy would help combat the spread of the coronavirus.
The White House has said the executive order was “not a religious test”.
The Trump administration says it is an anti-terror measure.
What happens next?
The court case could drag on for months.
The next hearing is scheduled for March 9, the date the court issued a decision in a previous case.
The justices are set to consider a request for a temporary restraining order that would allow the US government to implement the ban without having to apply to the full US Supreme court, which has already ruled that the law violates the Constitution’s free speech and due process clauses.
A three-judge panel of the Supreme US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has said it will hear oral argument on the case.
If that case is not heard before the court, the case could go to the high court for a decision.
