White House says court ‘upheld authority’ after justices rule 5-4 ban was within president’s power to craft national security policy
The US supreme court has upheld Donald Trump’s travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries, in a significant victory for the administration and a blow to anti-discrimination advocates.
In a 5-4 ruling handed down on Tuesday, the court accepted the government’s argument that the ban was within the president’s power to craft national security policy and his authority to “suspend entry of aliens into the United States”.
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This ruling will go down in history as one of the supreme court’s great failures
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