By Cody Wofsy, ACLU
June 26, 2017
After the Supreme Court ruled today that it would hear arguments on the Muslim ban that a number of lower courts have ruled against, the president claimed “clear victory.”
Hardly.
In fact, the court handed the government a sweeping, but not complete, defeat. It rejected the government’s blanket ban and recognized what all the lower courts in two separate cases saw: The ban would be devastating to families, organizations, and communities across the United States. The court also allowed the government to implement only a narrow version of the ban, explaining that anyone with a “bona fide relationship” to people or organizations in the United States cannot be barred. To view that decision as “clear victory” is wishful thinking.[…]
Read the full article:
https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/clear-victory-president-trump-mus lim-ban-20-hardly
https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/clear-victory-president-trump-mus lim-ban-20-hardly
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| Muslim ban protest, JFK airport, January 2017 |