Supreme Court upholds President Trump's travel ban.

The Supreme Court has found that President Donald Trump's travel ban is constitutional in a 5-4 descion. ABC News.  President Trump praised the descion calling it a great victory. The travel ban is the third attempt to enforce a travel ban on several Muslim majority countries and other countries. Those countries included North Korea, Venezuela, Yemen Syria, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Libya and Chad.  Iraq, Sudan and Chad have been removed from the list. The court said that the restriction fell into President Trump's duty on regulating immigration and national security.

The full ruling can be read below:

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on Trump's travel ban by Katie Dowd on Scribd

My Comment:

This was always expected and I am kind of surprised that it lasted this long. Trump was always right that he had the power to regulate which countries can send people into this country. The arguments that he couldn't were never on good footing. The question was never really that controversial legally, only emotionally. 

It is disturbing how close this descion was. The four liberal justices disagreed saying that the policy was unconstitutional because it discriminated. This was not a legal argument but an emotional one. Especially since other presidents, including Barack Obama, have done the same thing. Really, blocking countries with active terrorist groups or who are national enemies is not legally controversial and is in fact a critical function of the executive branch. 

I never thought the policy was discriminatory anyways. This is for several reasons. The first one is that many of the countries on the list had active territory controlled by ISIS or other terror groups. That isn't as much of a concern as today as ISIS is on the run everywhere but it is still a problem. There was an obvious and ongoing threat form ISIS infiltrators causing trouble, much like they did in Europe the last couple of years. We had an obvious and critical interest in preventing ISIS terror attacks so this ban was always going to be upheld.   

Secondly, the ban was never just targeting Sunni Muslims. Iran's Shiite population was included as well and non-Muslim minorities in those countries were also part of the ban. And, of course, North Korea and Venezuela do not have a Muslim majority and Islam essentially doesn't exist in North Korea. It was impossible to argue that this ban targeted Muslims as these countries were included. It also did not include the vast majority of Muslims that live in countries that were not effected by the ban. 

Third, many of the countries on the list are national enemies of the United States. Iran, Syria, North Korea (until very recently) and Venezuela are not friends of the United States and are very likely to try and infiltrate the United States. Espionage and sabotage were great concerns that were alleviated by this travel ban. 

I do worry that this will cause the left to become even more unhinged. They have already gone nuts over the faux border controversy but now they have been dealt a major blow they may totally lose it. We are already at the point where leftist activists are harassing Trump officials in public and sooner or later someone is going to get hurt. This descion is welcome but poorly timed...