FINAL FOUR: Supreme Court has four rulings left with more coming today at 10. At least one more day of rulings to come. Big cases are: -travel ban -public sector union fees -Calif. "pregnancy crisis center" regulation
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@lawrencehurley BREAKING: U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP OVER CHALLENGE TO ADMINISTRATION'S TRAVEL BAN TARGETING PEOPLE FROM SEVERAL MUSLIM-MAJORITY COUNTRIESShow this thread -
Supreme Court on 5-4 vote with court's conservatives in the majority and liberals dissenting rejects both statutory and constitutional challenges to Trump's latest travel ban
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Chief Justice Roberts: "We express no view on the soundness of the policy." Government has "set forth a sufficient national security justification," he adds.
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Breyer read summary of dissent from the bench. Now Sotomayor is reading too
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Justice Sotomayor: "Taking all the evidence together, a reasonable observer would conclude that the proclamation was driven primarily by anti-Muslim animus,"
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Sotomayor says there are "stark parallels" between travel ban and the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War Two. Roberts says the comparison is "wholly inapt"
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Strangest part of the ruling is that the Supreme Court used this case as an opportunity to officially repudiate the discredited 1944 ruling that upheld the internment of Japanese-Americans, Korematsu v. U.S.
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FULL STORY: Supreme court backs Trump on travel ban targeting Muslim-majority nationshttps://reut.rs/2tttWKE
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