{"id":390090,"date":"2018-12-22T05:04:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T04:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-supreme-court-upholds-block-on-trumps-asylum-ban\/"},"modified":"2018-12-22T05:04:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T04:04:31","slug":"presstv-supreme-court-upholds-block-on-trumps-asylum-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-supreme-court-upholds-block-on-trumps-asylum-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Supreme Court upholds block on Trump&#8217;s asylum ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The Supreme Court has refused to restore the Trump administration\u2019s restrictions on asylum for people who cross the US-Mexico border illegally.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a 5-4 ruling Friday that marks the second setback this week for efforts to tighten immigration rules, the Supreme Court upheld a federal judge&#8217;s order to block the hardline policy.<\/p>\n<p>On November 19, US District Judge Jon Tigar in San Francisco, California blocked the policy with 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals agreeing afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Justice John Roberts provided the critical vote against the administration, joining the four liberal justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, in denying the request.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"309\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20181222\/d6a92430-9031-4eed-a1e9-42896f0bf5d7.jpg\" width=\"550\"\/><figcaption>(Seated from left) Associate Justices Stephen Breyer, Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Samuel Alito; (standing from left) Associate Justices Neil Gorsuch, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Brett Kavanaugh (Photo via BBC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/12\/22\/583592\/US-Supreme-Court-Trump-immigrants\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has refused to restore the Trump administration\u2019s restrictions on asylum for people who cross the US-Mexico border illegally. In a 5-4 ruling Friday that marks the second setback this week for efforts to tighten immigration rules, the Supreme Court upheld a federal judge&#8217;s order to block the hardline policy. On November 19, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":390091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390090","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=390090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}