The Supreme Court is hearing its final oral arguments of the session on Wednesday, and it's one of their highest-profile cases of the year: President Trump's ban on travelers from six majority-Muslim countries. Trump's third iteration of his travel ban has been in full effect since December, but the challengers, represented by former acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal, will argue that the ban on visitors from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen, as well as North Korea and a limited number of Venezuelans, is an unconstitutional manifestation of Trump's promised Muslim travel ban. The Trump administration will say that the ban is a lawful exercise of the president's broad discretion over immigration and national security matters.
The line to get in to hear the oral arguments has been growing for days, and in a step the justices haven't taken since the same-sex marriage case in 2015, the Supreme Court will release audio of the arguments hours after they end. The justices are expected to hand down their decision in the case, Trump v. Hawaii, by late June.
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