(MEE Op-ed) — In 2015, then US presidential candidate Donald Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,” despite this violating a number of provisions of the US Constitution, including laws governing equal protection and the right to due process. During his first month in office, Trump turned his discriminatory and hateful […]
In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court today upheld the White House’s controversial decision to impose limits on travel from several Muslim majority countries. Coverage of the decision will, no doubt, frame the court’s ruling as a major win for the White House and Donald Trump’s ability to deliver on his hardline campaign promises to strengthen border security.
But a lesser-known individual played an outsized role in the Muslim travel ban.
Judge Napolitano says that the Supreme Court that validated President Trump's travel ban that affects people from Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen. Chad was dropped from the list in April. He said that this reaffirms Trump's absolute right to exclude people or groups from certain areas from immigrating to the US. The case will be referred back to Hawaii, as they accused Trump of discrimination against Muslims, while he was a candidate, but they will not be allowed to use Trump's words before the election.
(MEE) — The United States’ Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld President Donald Trump’s travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries, handing him one of the biggest victories of his presidency so far, rejecting the argument that it represented unconstitutional religious discrimination. The 5-4 ruling, with the court’s five conservatives in the majority, ended a fierce battle in the […]
The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to enforce a ban on travel to the US by residents of six mostly Muslim countries - Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen - despite legal challenges in lower courts. It is not clear what will happen when these cases clear the lower-courts. [...]
The open-ended ban, announced in September, targets people from Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Chad and North Korea.
(MEE) — The US Supreme Court ruled on Monday to allow President Donald Trump’s travel ban on several Muslim-majority countries to go into full effect.
PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA — North Korea (the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or DPRK) is one of the least understood and most lied about countries on Earth. In Western corporate media renditions, most news about the country is alarmist (of “the North Koreans want to kill you” type), fake (“all men have to have the same haircut,” a story originating from Washington itself), or about the North’s military.
After the purge of the strategist Steve Bannon from the ultra-nationalist entourage of Donald Trump by the troika of generals who took over the White House: James “Mad Dog” Mattis, Secretary of Defense; H.. R. McMaster, National Security Adviser, and John Kelly, Chief of Staff, the non-conventional and asymmetric war against Venezuela, partially declared by the President of the United States, could now pass to a new phase of military escalation.
With a third version of the Muslim ban set to go into effect on October 18, President Donald Trump’s administration has asked the Supreme Court to vacate lower court rulings on previous versions of the ban.
The President's new travel ban includes Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen, and has no expiration date. [...]
