{"id":367007,"date":"2018-06-27T21:52:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T20:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/supreme-court-upholds-trump-travel-ban-president-claims-vindication-from-hysterical-critics\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T21:52:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T20:52:45","slug":"supreme-court-upholds-trump-travel-ban-president-claims-vindication-from-hysterical-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/supreme-court-upholds-trump-travel-ban-president-claims-vindication-from-hysterical-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Upholds Trump Travel Ban, President Claims Vindication from &#8216;Hysterical&#8217; Critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, upheld President Donald\u00a0Trump&#8217;s restriction on travel\u00a0to the United States from a handful of Muslim countries on Tuesday, giving the White House its first high court victory on the merits of a presidential initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, made it clear that the court viewed the ability to regulate immigration as squarely within a president&#8217;s powers and he rejected critics&#8217; claims of anti-Muslim bias.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We express no view on the soundness of the policy,&#8221; Roberts wrote.<\/p>\n<p>After a series of federal court rulings invalidated or scaled back earlier versions of the travel ban, the decision is a big win for the administration and ends 15 months of legal battles over a key part of Trump&#8217;s immigration policy, which opponents attacked as a dressed-up form of the Muslim ban that Trump promised during his 2016 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Trump tweeted his happiness with the opinion shortly after it was released.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS TRUMP TRAVEL BAN. Wow!<\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1011620271327989760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissent that based on the evidence in the case &#8220;a reasonable observer would conclude that the Proclamation was motivated by anti-Muslim animus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She said her colleagues on the court arrived at the opposite result by &#8220;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,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/supreme-court-upholds-trump-travel-ban-president-claims-vindication-from-hysterical-critics\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, upheld President Donald\u00a0Trump&#8217;s restriction on travel\u00a0to the United States from a handful of Muslim countries on Tuesday, giving the White House its first high court victory on the merits of a presidential initiative. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, made it clear that the court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-367007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}