The following article by Dylan Matthews was posted on the Vox.com website June 26, 2018:
Sotomayor read Trump’s tweets too and wants to know why the rest of the Supreme Court didn’t.
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, June 26, 5-4, that the Trump administration’s travel ban targeting Muslim-majority countries is constitutional, largely because the administration picked the listed countries using criteria that were, on their face, race- and religion-neutral. Those criteria just happened to result in a policy banning entry from a number of Muslim countries (plus North Korea and Venezuela) and to come from a president who had repeatedly promised to bar Muslims from entering the United States.
The Court’s four liberals dissented. Justice Stephen Breyer’s dissent, which Justice Elena Kagan joined, is cautiously written, arguing that the case should be sent back to district court based on evidence that the policy is not being applied in a fair way. Continue reading “Read: Sonia Sotomayor condemns Trump’s “unrelenting attack on the Muslim religion and its followers””