The US supreme court has asked the state of Hawaii to respond by Tuesday at noon to Donald Trump’s motion to block a ruling that prevented his travel ban from being applied to grandparents of US citizens and refugees already being processed by resettlement agencies, the court’s public information office said on Saturday.

In a filing on Friday, the administration asked the supreme court 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 travelers from six Muslim-majority countries.

The latest round in the fight over Trump’s 6 March executive order, which he says is needed to prevent terrorist attacks, began when the supreme court intervened last month to partially revive the ban, which had been blocked by lower courts.

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’s March order banned travelers from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for 90 days, and all refugees for 120 days. A first order in January also banned travellers from Iraq: it was blocked after a chaotic rollout provoked mass protest and organised acts of defiance.

The supreme court has agreed to hear oral arguments in the fall over whether the ban violates the US constitution.