The US Supreme Court has asked the State of Hawaii to respond to President Donald Trump's motion to block a judge's ruling on his travel ban, the court's public information office says.
The judge's ruling prevented Trump's travel ban from being applied to grandparents of US citizens and refugees already being processed by resettlement agencies.
The Supreme Court has asked Hawaii to respond by Tuesday at noon.
In a court filing on Friday, the administration asked the justices to overturn Thursday's decision by a US district judge in Hawaii, which limited the scope of the administration's temporary ban on refugees and travellers from six Muslim-majority countries.
The latest round in the fight over Trump's March 6 executive order, which he says is needed to prevent terrorism attacks, began when the Supreme Court intervened last month to partially revive the two bans, which had been blocked by lower courts.
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The Supreme Court said then that the ban could take effect, but that people with a "bona fide relationship" to a US person or entity could not be barred.
The administration had narrowly interpreted that language, saying the ban would apply to grandparents and other family members, prompting the state of Hawaii to ask Hawaii-based US District Judge Derrick Watson to expand the definition of who could be admitted.
Trump banned travellers from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days, and refugees for 120 days.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear oral arguments later this year over whether the ban violates the US Constitution.
