In a major victory for President Trump, the Supreme Court allowed his controversial travel ban to take full effect while legal challenges go forward, suggesting the court ultimately will uphold the restrictions, Bloomberg reports.
Previously, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and a federal district court in Maryland had said the president could only block nationals from the six majority Muslim countries - Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and Chad - if they lacked a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States. The high court’s decision now puts those rulings on hold. As a result, Trump will now be allowed to bar entry by people from six mostly Muslim countries - even if they have a relationship with a U.S.-based person or institution, but more importantly, and the reason why Trump is about to gloat on Twitter, this marks the first time the Supreme Court has let his entry restrictions take full effect.
In two identical orders, Supreme Court justices effectively superseded a compromise reached in June, when they allowed an earlier version of the ban take partial effect while exempting people with a "bona fide" U.S. connection. As Bloomberg adds, the new orders apply for the remainder of the appeals process, including possible Supreme Court review.
In its orders Monday, the Supreme Court said it expects the appeals courts to rule "with appropriate dispatch."
Only justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor said they would have denied the government’s request, without giving an explanation.
As The Hill writes, "the state of Hawaii and the International Refugee Assistance Project challenged Trump’s latest ban, arguing the Supreme Court carved out the same bona fide relationship exemption in June when it partially reinstated Trump’s 90-day ban on nationals from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Sudan and Yemen. "
When that order expired on Sept. 24, Trump issued new restrictions that eliminated Sudan but added Chad, North Korea and individuals affiliated with certain government agencies in Venezuela. The lower court bans did not block the restrictions on Venezuelan officials or immigrants from North Korea.
The Trump administration argued that a lot has changed since June, with Solicitor General Noel Francisco arguing that “multiple government agencies have conducted a comprehensive, worldwide review of the information shared by foreign governments that is used to screen aliens seeking entry to the United States.”
“Based on that review, the proclamation adopts tailored entry restrictions to address extensive findings that a handful of particular foreign governments have deficient information-sharing and identity-management practices, or other risk factors.”
The administration argued that the newest version of the ban, announced on Sept. 24, was put in place only after national security officials thoroughly reviewed vetting procedures on a country-by-country basis. The Department of Homeland Security would be able to add or remove travel restrictions on countries as conditions change.
Not all hope is lost for the resistance however: the new Supreme Court orders does not directly address the merits of the legal challenges. Separately, two federal appeals courts are scheduled to hear arguments this week. The high court could agree to consider appeals later, perhaps soon enough for a ruling during the current term that ends in June.
Trump slowing the inflow rate of illegal democratic voters?!?!
The Lefstablishment is going to go full RacistPresidentNato on him.
#MAGA ... woot....
please show me the chart of Muslims killed by Americans in Muslim countries
vs
Americans killed by Muslims in America
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can anyone spell hypocrisy? cognitive dissonance?
anyone??? Beuller? Beuller?
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this is nothing but a cheap political bone tossed to ignorant fools
Ginsberg will be dead of cancer or old age before Trump leaves office but one of YOU GUYS are going to have to do something about Sotomayor. LOL
BTW, has anyone heard how McCain's cancer is coming along? I thought he should be at about the end of his rope by now.
He looks awful in the photos from his daughter's wedding and recent Senate vote photos, and he apparently needs a wheelchair.
It takes a special kind of stupid to bomb foreign countries, thus creating enemies within those countries and then let the people from those countries into your own.
Bomb other countries? Islam has been at war with the rest of humanity 1300 years before the Kitty Hawk flight.
just switch "stupid" to "monster" and you are getting closer
you're the special kind of stupid for showing yourself to be a gaping asshole.
vs Americans killed by Muslims in America
We will make sure that we are never close to being the losing side of that body count. For each American who falls a million Muslims will perish. They had better back off before they lose all their brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers. We'll send them all to meet Allah in Hell.
Ignorant fools? Twisted logic appears to be your specialty.
Nobody here supports bombing anyone.
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then you apparently haven't been on this
ZH very long
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that's rich, seth rich
idiot
deport welfare sucking, non assimilating muslim filth today...
https://imgur.com/gallery/Eyx6g
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These libtarded judges could give a shit about the law or what miscreants make it into the US because of their stupid rulings. All they know is that they are against anything Trump is for.
Perhaps we won't end up looking like Germany, France, or Sweden....
Unless you're in Detroit, Miami, Houston, Chicago, NYC, Wash DC, Philadelphia, or Minneapolis.
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Certainly not. We won't ever have good education, high quality health care or low crime.
Yeah it's perfect! That's why so many Germans have left.
Ginsburg of course voted against it like the filthy Bolshevik she is
Die already, Ruth and take McCain to Hell with you.
Good for the City. Interesting times for Mueller et allii.
Hey Dumbo-crats! Get bent!
About time.
It's unfortunate that Ginsburg wasn't articulate enough to explain her objection...
Shh..she is sleeping.
That part of the opinion she got from Tel Aviv was garbled in transmission
The Don driving the Left bat shet crazy.....Yes, I know that is a short drive
Heard on the radio this morning that 300,000 Puerto Ricans have moved to Florida. May be another 100,000 to 200,000 coming. The radio said the Trump Administration just isn't fixing Puerto Rico fast enough and so they just have got to leave. Our fault of course.
The radio asked the question of whether they'll be allowed to vote or will vote in Florida in 2018 or 2020.
Game over ... Florida goes blue.
I hope like hell immigration is giving them a date for having to leave? Give them a year or so before they have to leave.
I grew up in Florida and lived in Miami for years until recently. Miami is not even a part of the US anymore but it is Haiti, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Cuba and Columbia. Damn shame too.
If we cut Puerto Rico loose it becomes a nuclear missile base for somebody else. Their environmentalists will fall over themselves selling land at Vieques Bay.
Winning
I do love when I beat the Tylers in posting a news story.
Tylers: Dec 4, 2017 5:12 PM
chech_wizard: Dec 4, 2017 4:49 PM
Standard Disclaimer: Reaction time is a factor...
Now do the same to Mexico and Kalifronia. Then build the wall por favor.
Wow! Imagine the US actually having an immigration policy. I do wonder why I even have to show my passport when I return to the US.
Do you still have to to have one to get into Kalifronia?
White snowFlakes triggered and about to drop a load in their britches in 4..3..2..
An excellent result which is more promising when viewed by the fact that at least Ginsburg will get replaced soon.
WINNING, MAGA, 7 MORE YEARS
Praise the LORD!
This is wining, it's what Trump does.
TRUMP 2020!
i'll have a ginsburger with sweet potato fries please. hold the pickle bitchez.
Wonderful!!! I thought that bitch (((Ginsberg))) was going to emigrate to New Zealand if Trump won?