U.S. Supreme Court upholds President Trump's racist Muslim travel ban with Justice Sonia Sotomayor writing the dissent, Sotomayor saying the travel ban runs contrary to the constitution and is motivated by anti-Muslim animus, a policy, said Sotomayor, that "masquerades behind a facade of national-security concerns"....Justice Sotomayor is a former president Barack Obama appointee....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers with some 5 million readers on Google Plus alone. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com
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| United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and former president Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president |
The court's liberal justices, Elena Kagan, Stephen Bryer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, who authored the dissent that was supported only by Ginsburg, were outraged.
"Because that troubling result runs contrary to the constitution and our precedent, I dissent," wrote Sotomayor. "Our founders honored that core promise by embedding the principle of religious neutrality in the First Amendment."
An appointee of former president Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president, Sotomayor said in her dissent that the policy is motivated by anti-Muslim animus and "masquerades behind a facade of national-security concerns."
She said the majority misconstrued facts and ignored legal precedent, referring, in part, to the San Francisco- based Ninth Circuit’s opinion in the case which cites a dissent from Korematsu v. U.S., the Supreme Court’s now-discredited 1944 decision upholding the wartime internment of Japanese-Americans.
The president, however, is elated.
The president, however, is elated.
Titled TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL.
v. HAWAII ET AL, the celebrated case, the first of its kind from a modern day standpoint, is the Republican president's first victory before the nation's high court on administration policy and a blow to activists and immigration advocates who have protested vigorously over the issue since Trump took office last year.
Trump, who promised the ban during his 2016 campaign for president, tweeted that the decision represents "a tremendous success."
Chief Justice John Roberts, joined by the other four conservative justices, Justices Kennedy, Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch, a Trump appointee, wrote the majority opinion.
Roberts wrote that the policy is not unconstitutional or otherwise illegal under immigration law and that presidents have broad powers to dictate immigration policy.
Roberts said the six countries impacted by the ban were selected using a race-neutral criteria, though critics of the travel ban say otherwise.
Challengers, including the state of Hawaii, argued that the ban exceeds the president's authority, and is racist and unconstitutional on its face, among other arguments.
Some lower courts, including the Ninth Circuit, had ruled the ban illegal and the high court allowed it to continue as it prepared to hear the case, one of the most controversial cases on immigration policy in history.
Roberts wrote that the policy is not unconstitutional or otherwise illegal under immigration law and that presidents have broad powers to dictate immigration policy.
Roberts said the six countries impacted by the ban were selected using a race-neutral criteria, though critics of the travel ban say otherwise.
Challengers, including the state of Hawaii, argued that the ban exceeds the president's authority, and is racist and unconstitutional on its face, among other arguments.
Some lower courts, including the Ninth Circuit, had ruled the ban illegal and the high court allowed it to continue as it prepared to hear the case, one of the most controversial cases on immigration policy in history.
ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers with some 5 million readers on Google Plus alone. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.
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