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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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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See the impact of Trump's travel ban so far showing numbers of visas issued before and after it went into effect: https://tmsnrt.rs/2tyHpRa via
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Sen. McConnell on travel ban: "I think the administration finally got it right. The Supreme Court agreed with that, and I think this is a decision the president should feel good about and I'm comfortable with, even though I didn't care for the earlier versions" -- via
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What can we expect out of a ‘rigged’ rigid court?!
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This is bad, bad, BAD
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The Supreme Court has shown they are wholly & completely political, which is exactly what McConnell was ensuring when stonewalling Obama's choice. REPUBLICANS have bought the law of the land.
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Well let's be civil about it. Don't want to upset Cory, Nancy and Chuck.
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