Steeper slope
The Supremes (the five reactionary ones) say sure go ahead ban Muslims from the country, we’re good with that.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld President Trump’s ban on travel from mostly-Muslim nations, delivering a robust endorsement of Mr. Trump’s power to control the flow of immigration into America at a time of political upheaval about the treatment of migrants at the Mexican border.
In a 5-to-4 vote, the court’s conservatives said the president’s statutory power over immigration was not undermined by his history of incendiary statements about the dangers he said Muslims pose to Americans.
Great. Flaming hate-mongering racist shit shouts his hate-mongering shit for a year and a half and the 5 Supremes say that’s a perfectly cromulent reason for him to issue orders banning entire populations from the country.
In a passionate and searing dissent from the bench, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the decision was no better than Korematsu v. United States, the 1944 decision that endorsed the detention of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
And no better than Plessy v Ferguson or Dred Scott.
What a shithole country this has become.
Does this travel ban automatically expire at some point? I thought it did (either way it’s still horrible of course) but could be wrong.
I think the original one was for a limited time, yes. If we can get rid of this monster before he seizes absolute power (and passes it on to his children), it can be repealed altogether.
I agree. There was a time when I might have actually said that I was proud and thankful to have been born an American, but that time is past. Our government is tossing our founding principles overboard as fast as they possibly can, with the cheering approval of millions of citizens.