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By Robert Barnes, Ann E. Marimow and Matt Zapotosky April 25 at 12:12 PM
The conservative majority on the Supreme Court seemed to agree Wednesday that President Trump has the authority to ban travelers from certain majority-Muslim countries if he thinks that it is necessary to protect the country.
Lower courts have struck down each of the three iterations of the presidents travel-ban proclamation, the first of which was issued just a week after he took office in January 2017. But the conservative-leaning Supreme Court may be Trumps best hope, and it gave the administration a boost by allowing the ban to go into effect in December while considering the challenges to it.
Solicitor General Noel Francisco told the justices that the president was well within his power to issue the proclamation and that it came after a thorough, worldwide review of the vetting procedures of countries.
The initiative applies only to a tiny number of countries, Francisco told the justices, and permits the vast majority of travelers to enter, including those from Muslim-majority countries.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. was most active in advancing the notion that the president is privy to national security information that courts are ill prepared to second-guess.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-to-consider-trumps-travel-ban-and-the-presidents-authority/2018/04/24/7413b180-480a-11e8-8b5a-3b1697adcc2a_story.html
Eliot Rosewater
(31,125 posts)emails?
fuck you
servers?
fuck you
holding your nose?
DOUBLE FUCK YOU
bluestarone
(17,062 posts)Gonna take a MAJOR REVOLT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They will lock us up!!
Freethinker65
(10,064 posts)That is the argument that needs to be made.
It is total capitulation of the court if the President can just pull anything out of his ass and say he is doing it because of "National Security".
bluestarone
(17,062 posts)EVEN THO YOU ARE 100% CORRECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!