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US Supreme Court to review Trump’s latest travel ban

Saturday, January 20, 2018

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President Donald Trump’s latest travel ban affecting citizens from six Muslim majority countries plus North Korea and Venezuela will be reviewed by the US Supreme court.

 

The high court will rule on whether the president exceeded his powers and engaged in religious discrimination in the third rendering of the ban.

 

It was repeatedly ruled by the lower courts in California, Hawaii and other states that Trump’s order targets Muslims in violation of the US Constitution.

 

Attorney General Doug Chin of Hawaii, which has repeatedly fought the travel bans said that they had known that the case would be decided by the United States Supreme Court. They were looking forward to hearing the case and it was important for justice and the rule of law.

 

 

Last month the conservative-tilting court  rejected calls for a freeze on the ban, which targets visitors from Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. It allowed Trump to implement it while it was being challenged in lower courts.

 

The ban has been rewritten twice by the US administration with more national security justifications in the latest iteration in September.

 

 

It will include citizens of North Korea and Venezuela to counter the argument the government was singling out Muslim countries.

 

 

Trump said it aimed to keep out extremists by the initial travel ban, decreed after a week he took office resulted in chaos out at the US airports. The travelers were detained upon arrival and there were nationwide protests.

 

 

Starting with his campaign vow to ban Muslims from entering the country, to make the case that they were the intended target the court challenges seized upon Trump’s repeated comments.

 

 

It was seen that the first ban was quickly blocked in court as was modified version removing Iraq from the list of countries.

 

 

The United States in the third version noted that it welcomed no more than a handful of annual visitors from North Korea, and in Venezuela’s case, the ban was made specific to a number of high-ranking officials in a government already facing US sanctions.

 

 

The latest version of the ban was open-ended, while the previous two versions were set for 90 days, ostensibly for the government to review security threats from the countries.

 

 

Trump has the executive power to order such a ban will be reviewed by the Supreme Court.

 

Omar Jadwat, director of the Immigrants’ Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, which has supported Hawaii in its court challenge said that every version of the ban seemed to be unconstitutional, illegal, or both by federal trial and appellate courts.

 

 

He further added that the Supreme Court can and should put a definitive end to President Trump’s attempt to undermine the constitutional guarantee of religious equality and the basic principles of our immigration laws, including their prohibition of national origin discrimination.

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