Wednesday’s Supreme Court argument about the travel ban on certain majority-Muslim nations probably wouldn’t have happened at all if the ban hadn’t been issued by President Trump. “If it were just the text of the order alone,” Neal Katyal, the lawyer arguing against the travel ban, told the justices, “. And, after President Trump unveiled his first version of the travel ban, former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, a Trump confidant, declared publicly that Trump had used the word “Muslim ban” and directed Giuliani to “show me the right way to do it legally.”The solicitor general became flustered in his rebuttal. The travel ban has been revised substantially over time, and now it includes exemptions that, if they are honestly granted, may well be enough to pass constitutional muster. “It does not look at all like a Muslim ban,” Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. informed Katyal.

Source: Washington Post April 26, 2018 00:00 UTC