How the Supreme Court Used 'Protecting Families' to Justify the Travel Ban
And how the Court's dissenters used the exact same reason to draw the opposite conclusion.
by Ashley Fetters
Jun 26, 2018
3 minutes
In the 92 pages of the Supreme Court’s ruling on , handed down on Tuesday, families are mentioned 12 times. Relatives, seven times; parents, twice. The decision, which upholds President Trump’s order restricting travel and immigration to the United States from eight foreign countries, is the final word on a court case filed by a group of plaintiffs that included the state of Hawaii, the Muslim Association of Hawaii, and “three individuals with foreign relatives affected by the entry suspension.” In
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