The U.S. Supreme Court has just handed down a 5-4 ruling siding with President Donald Trump, saying his anti-Muslim travel ban is constitutional.
MSNBC’s Pete Williams says the Supreme Court rejected the argument that Trump’s anti-muslim animus was obvious in his campaign statements and tweets, even as president.
The Court claims Trump has the power to impose the ban as a matter of national security.
The ACLU weighs in with a scathing rebuke:
Justice Sonia Sotomayor writes in her dissent:
“The United States of America is a Nation built upon the promise of religious liberty. Our Founders honored that core promise by embedding the principle of religious neutrality in the First Amendment. The Court’s decision today fails to safeguard that fundamental principle. It leaves undisturbed a policy first advertised openly and unequivocally as a ‘total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States’ because the policy now masquerades behind a façade of national-security concerns.” [Bolding ours.]
The ruling is here.
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