The Elder Statement : Sonia Sotomayor condemns Trump’s “unrelenting attack on the Muslim religion and its followers”

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Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Sonia Sotomayor condemns Trump’s “unrelenting attack on the Muslim religion and its followers”

elderstatement.com June 27, 2018 Sonia Sotomayor condemns Trump’s “unrelenting attack on the Muslim religion and its followers” , 0 Comments

By Vox, June 26, 2018

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.