Supreme Court upholds Trump travel ban

Great news! 

By the way, Sonia Sotomayor and her cohorts are morons. These liberals seem not to have the slightest concern for the safety of American citizens! Their main concern is their politically-correct agenda and public perception. 

I really don’t understand it? How much more proof do they need to get it into their thick skulls that there are people in certain countries throughout the world that would really want to do serious harm to the people of the United States and that some of those people (and yes, they are Muslims) live in these predominantly Islamic countries? This is not anti-Muslim bias, this is a fact. TGO

Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press

MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld President Donald Trump’s ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries, rejecting a challenge that it discriminated against Muslims or exceeded his authority.

The 5-4 decision is the court’s first substantive ruling on a Trump administration policy.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, joined by his four conservative colleagues.

Roberts wrote that presidents have substantial power to regulate immigration. He also rejected the challengers’ claim of anti-Muslim bias.

The court may have signaled its eventual approval in December, when the justices allowed the policy to take full effect even as the court fight continued and lower courts had ruled it out of bounds.

Roberts was careful not to endorse either Trump’s provocative statements about immigration in general and Muslims in particular.

“We express no view on the soundness of the policy,” Roberts wrote.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a dissent that based on the evidence in the case “a reasonable observer would conclude that the Proclamation was motivated by anti-Muslim animus.” She said her colleagues arrived at the opposite result by “ignoring the facts, misconstruing our legal precedent, and turning a blind eye to the pain and suffering the Proclamation inflicts upon countless families and individuals, many of whom are United States citizens.”

Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan also dissented.