House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House will consider the "NO BAN Act" which would overturn the ban and prevent the president from establishing future restrictions unless the administration provides strong evidence to justify it in consultation with Congress.
"House Democrats continue to stand opposed to President Trump's cruel, un-American travel ban in all of its iterations. In the coming weeks, the House Judiciary Committee will mark up and bring to the floor the NO BAN Act to prohibit religious discrimination in our immigration system and limit the president's ability to impose such biased and bigoted restrictions," Pelosi said in a statement.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said on Monday that his panel would take up the bill in two weeks. The bill was introduced in April, and is supported by nearly 250 members of Congress and hundreds of civil rights, faith, national security and community organisations from
across the country.
The bill has a chance of passing in the Democratic-led House, but faces an uphill battle in the Republican-controlled Senate.
In a news conference held outside the US Senate, Democratic Senator Chris Coons, one of the authors of the NO BAN Act denounced what he called the "intentional use of cruelty" in the Trump's administration's immigration policy and said the Muslim ban was based on "prejudice, populism and discrimination", rather than fact or security considerations.
"Our whole effort in introducing this legislation and trying to move it forward is to say our Supreme Court got it wrong," Coons told reporters.
Trump's first travel ban, which targeted several Muslim-majority countries, was announced without warning on January 27, 2017, days after the president took office. It created outrage and led to chaos in airports across the country as hundreds of travellers were detained and thousands of previously issued visas to the US were revoked.
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