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.

BREAKING: @NBCNews Special Report: US Supreme Court upholds Trump travel ban. https://t.co/iZYuZ5uGmM pic.twitter.com/IO6kgJyzkG

— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 26, 2018

The ACLU weighs in with a scathing rebuke:

In 1944, the Supreme Court allowed the US government to imprison Japanese Americans solely because of their national origin and ethnicity, based on empty claims of national security.

It’s one of the most shameful chapters of US history, and today’s decision now joins it.

— ACLU (@ACLU) June 26, 2018

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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A video on social media depicting several police officers beating a 20-year old woman on a New Jersey beach while holding her down has gone viral, being viewed over two million times today. Despite repeatedly hitting her in the head, the officers decided the woman, a minor, who was at the beach with her 18-month old child and boyfriend, assaulted them. According to the NY Post, the officers charged Emily Weinman with two counts of aggravated assault on an officer, and being a minor in possession of alcohol.

In her Facebook post, which has since been removed, Weinman admits there was alcohol around her, but makes clear she didn’t have any. Despite that, she took a breathalyzer test, which she says she passed. But even then, police would not leave her alone.

“They still stayed, the one cop following me when I walked away to go make a phone call after they did what they had to do,” Weinman wrote on Facebook. “Therefore I asked them don’t they have something better to do as cops than to stop people for underage drinking on the beach, saying to that there’s so much more serious stuff going on… the cop said, ‘I was gonna let you go but now I’ll write you up’ and he asked my name.”

Weinman says she was so afraid of the officers she refused to give them her name, saying she had done nothing wrong, and had already acquiesced to their demands.

The officers “have been taken off the street pending a probe into their actions, officials said Sunday,” according to The Post. The paper says the “54-second video clip posted online shows one of the cops punching Weinman in the head, then flipping her over with his forearm across her neck before she was subdued with the help of another cop.”

One of the officers can be seen holding her down by her ankles while the other officer beats her.

Wildwood, New Jersey Police Chief Regalbuto “stated that while he finds this video to be alarming, he does not want to rush to any judgement until having the final results of the investigation,” the Dept. wrote on Facebook.

Video posted to Facebook and Twitter over the weekend showed a police officer in Wildwood, N.J. punching a woman who appears to be much smaller than him.

NJ.com reported that the video shows the officer punching a woman in the head as people around her shout, “Stop resisting.” The video was recorded Saturday afternoon and by Sunday afternoon, it had been viewed on Facebook more than 140,000 times.

In her Facebook post, Emily Weinman explains that she decided to take her daughter to the beach. Weinman admits that alcohol was near her vicinity, and officers asked her to take a breathalyzer test, which she passed.

“They still stayed, the one cop following me when I walked away to go make a phone call after they did what they had to do,” Weinman writes. “Therefore I asked them don’t they have something better to do as cops than to stop people for underage drinking on the beach, saying to that there’s so much more serious stuff going on… the cop said, ‘I was gonna let you go but now I’ll write you up’ and he asked my name.”

Weinman says that she refused to give him her name out of fear.

“I’m not gonna give him my information knowing I didn’t do anything wrong. He told me he’s arresting me and started coming towards me to put handcuffs on me,” she recalls. “I tripped and fell and the cop tackled me to the ground and smashed my head into the sand. At that point I blacked out and fought any way possible trying to get up and push him off me. Thats when he head locked me me by his arm around my neck, punched on me in my head and then he head locked me again but this time choking me.”

Weinman goes on to say that she would have given the officer her name “if I took even a sip.”

NJ.com asked Wildwood Commissioner Pete Byron for a comment on the case but he declined to respond.

Watch the video and read Weinman’s post below.

UPDATE: 6:33 PM EDT –
The video appears to have been removed from Facebook. Here is a copy via NBC Philadelphia:

Here’s a better copy:

I was sleeping on the beach and I woke up to this.. i can’t believe it.. pic.twitter.com/UJE5Sy7E4G

— Lexy (@HewittLexy) May 26, 2018