Analysis: The Impact Of The Supreme Court's Decision To Uphold Trump's Travel Ban
Analysis: The Impact Of The Supreme Court's Decision To Uphold Trump's Travel Ban
Protesters gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to protest President Trump's travel ban. The court upheld the ban by a 5-4 margin. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Protesters gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to protest President Trump's travel ban. The court upheld the ban by a 5-4 margin.
Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty ImagesIn a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld President Trump's travel ban.
Trump called the ruling a "tremendous victory for the American People and the Constitution," while Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said the ban "doesn't make us safer, and the Supreme Court's ruling doesn't make it right."
On this episode of the NPR Politics Podcast, congressional correspondent Scott Detrow, national political correspondent Mara Liasson and White House correspondent Scott Horsley explain the history of Trump's travel ban and what the ruling means.
Read the court's opinions here.
They also place the ruling in the context of the ongoing immigration debate and discuss how Justice Neil Gorsuch — who was appointed by President Trump — ended up in the majority of another 5-4 decision.
And they briefly touch on Tuesday's other Supreme Court decision, which saw the court side with California anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers in a decision saying that a state law that required the centers to be more explicit about their services violated the First Amendment.