How the SCOTUS “Muslim Ban Ruling” Gives the President a Blank Check to Detain American Citizens

Mint Press speaks with legal expert and law professor Ryan Alford, who warns that hidden within the recent Supreme Court ruling on the Trump administration’s “Muslim travel ban” is a massive power giveaway to the executive branch that allows any president to order the mass detention of American citizens without worrying about a challenge from the courts.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
A child stands next to a protester representing the Statue of Liberty Trump's Muslim ban on June 26, 2018, in New York. Civil rights organizations, expressed outrage and disappointment at the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Tuesday to uphold President Donald Trump's ban. Andres Kudacki | AP

WASHINGTON -- Though the recent Supreme Court ruling on Trump vs. Hawaii, which upholds President Trump’s “Muslim ban,” has been widely covered by the press, very few outlets – if any – have explored some truly unnerving implications hidden within the court’s majority opinion. In order to explore these implications further, MintPress spoke to Ryan

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A Long List of Public Figures Jake Tapper Must Condemn for Ties to Farrakhan

Jake Tapper attacked Keith Ellison for over four minutes over his association with Farrakhan. It’s time he demonstrate some moral consistency and condemn Ronald Reagan, too.

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By Hamzah Raza | Grayzone Project
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On June 26, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld President Donald Trump’s Executive Order supporting a ban on immigration from many Muslim-majority countries, especially those in the crosshairs of American foreign policy. The five Republican judges decided that it did not matter that Trump had been touting plans for a Muslim ban for over

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Supreme Court Upholds Trump’s Muslim Ban

“The effort to end the Muslim Ban is far from over. We will do everything in our power to organize our community and collaborate with other communities to ensure that Trump’s shameful policy is repealed by Congress.”

Jake Johnson
By Jake Johnson
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In a 5-4 ruling on Tuesday that further demonstrated how much the "stolen Supreme Court seat is paying off for Republicans," Justice Neil Gorsuch joined his fellow conservatives on the nation's highest court in voting to uphold President Donald Trump's Muslim ban. "This is a dark day for America. The Supreme Court ruling in Trump v.

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Trump’s Muslim Ban Shuts Door to Those Fleeing US-Backed Destruction of Yemen

Yemenis whose applications were rejected include a mother breastfeeding her infant son, a U.S. citizen; the teenage son of a U.S. citizen who would likely be conscripted into a militia if returned to Yemen, and a five-year-old girl whose mother is a U.S. citizen.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Standing next to her mother, Samar Alwahiri, 3-year-old Laila Alamri, of Yemen, tries to make a heart shape with her fingers at Los Angeles International Airport, Feb. 8, 2017, in Los Angeles. Donald Trump's travel ban left Yemenis stranded in and elsewhere. Jae C. Hong | AP

WASHINGTON – Though it rarely receives much attention from the media, the crisis in Yemen is undeniably the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, as a Saudi Arabian-led war -- waged with the United States’ blessing and complicity – has put over ten million Yemenis at the brink of starvation and led to the largest outbreak of cholera in the

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Trump Urges Supreme Court: Get Rid Of Rulings Against Muslim Ban

What the administration wants is for organizations that bring challenges to their authority to be constrained from invoking the record of unjust and unconstitutional conduct against Muslims seeking to enter the United States.

Kevin Gosztola
By Kevin Gosztola
In this Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal airport, in Morristown, N.J. The Trump administration announced new travel ban restrictions after spending months hashing out the details determined to avoid a repeat of the chaos of Trump’s first travel ban. (AP/Evan Vucci)

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. “If allowed to stand, the lower courts’ decisions threaten to undermine the executive’s ability to deal with sensitive foreign policy issues

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Trump’s Muslim Ban 3.0 Faces First Major Legal Challenge

In many respects, this version of the ban is the cruelest and absurd of three Muslim bans. North Korea and Venezuela are simply cover for discrimination.

Kevin Gosztola
By Kevin Gosztola
Protestors of a travel ban gather in Union Square, Thursday, June 29, 2017, in New York. A scaled-back version of President Donald Trump's travel ban takes effect Thursday evening, stripped of provisions that brought protests and chaos at airports worldwide in January yet still likely to generate a new round of court fights. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

A major lawsuit was filed against the third version of the Muslim ban issued by President Donald Trump on September 24. In particular, the lawsuit calls attention to the disproportionate impact the ban will likely have on Iranian Americans. Muslim Advocates, the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), Americans United for Separation of Church

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