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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.
Source: Toya Sarno Jordan / Reuters

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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