US SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS TRUMP’S TRAVEL BAN

WASHINGTON, United States – After several months of resistance, President Donald Trump of the United States today had his way with his travel ban targeting immigrants from Muslim countries when the Supreme court ruled in his favour.

The Trump travel ban prohibits most people from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen from entering the US. But the Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling reversed ruling by lower courts.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in his ruling that the travel ban was “squarely within the scope of Presidential authority”.

“The Government has set forth a sufficient national security justification to survive rational basis review. We express no view on the soundness of the policy.”

Omar Jadwat, director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Immigrant Rights Project said in a statement that the ruling was one of the Court’s “great failures”.

“The court failed today, and so the public is needed more than ever. We must make it crystal clear to our elected representatives: If you are not taking action to rescind and dismantle Trump’s Muslim ban, you are not upholding this country’s most basic principles of freedom and equality.”

Mr Jadwat likened the Court’s decision to the ruling which upheld Japanese-American internment during World War Two.