SCOTUS Hears Travel Ban Case Wednesday:  The Supreme Court will hear argument in the Ninth Circuit case of Trump v. Hawaii Wednesday.  As reported on SCOTUSblog roughly 75 amicus briefs have been filed in the case, with the bulk of them arguing in opposition to the President's Executive Order suspending entry into the United States of aliens from eight countries which do not maintain information on their citizens needed to determine if they pose a threat to national security.  Jess Bravin and  Brent Kendall of the Wall Street Journal report that the lower courts have held the restrictions to be an unlawful extension of executive authority because the administration has not adequately proven that allowing visitors from the selected countries pose a national security risk.   Solicitor General Noel Francisco argues the courts have no business examining the travel ban at all. "Congress has granted the president sweeping power to suspend or restrict entry of aliens abroad," he writes. Mr. Trump "lawfully exercised that power based on his express findings--following a world-wide, multiagency review--that entry of the covered aliens would be detrimental to the national interest."