{"id":367295,"date":"2018-06-29T17:30:19","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T16:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-rights-groups-slam-us-supreme-court-ruling\/"},"modified":"2018-06-29T17:30:19","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T16:30:19","slug":"presstv-rights-groups-slam-us-supreme-court-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-rights-groups-slam-us-supreme-court-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Rights groups slam US Supreme Court ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>American rights groups have harshly criticized the US Supreme Court\u2019s decision to uphold President Donald Trump\u2019s controversial travel ban on several Muslim-majority countries.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a number of other partner organizations challenged the top court\u2019s ruling on Tuesday, denouncing the decision as a historic mistake.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The ruling &#8220;will go down in history as one of the Supreme Court&#8217;s great failures,&#8221; Omar Jadwat, an attorney with the ACLU, said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u201cThe court failed today, and so the public is needed more than ever. We must make it crystal clear to our elected representatives: If you are not taking actions to rescind and dismantle Trump\u2019s Muslim ban, you are not upholding this country\u2019s most basic principles of freedom and equality,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Nihad Awad, the chief executive officer and founder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, slammed the decision as extremely&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/06\/27\/566203\/US-Supreme-Court-travel-ban-Donald-Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American rights groups have harshly criticized the US Supreme Court\u2019s decision to uphold President Donald Trump\u2019s controversial travel ban on several Muslim-majority countries. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and a number of other partner organizations challenged the top court\u2019s ruling on Tuesday, denouncing the decision as a historic mistake. The ruling &#8220;will go down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-367295","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\/367295","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}