PSU Vanguard
By Anamika Vaughan
July 31, 2018
On June 26, 2018, the United States Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump’s travel ban in a 5-4 decision. The ban, originally put forth in 2017, restricts individuals from Iran, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, North Korea, Venezuela and Syria from entering the U.S.
The decision marked the end of a long journey for the ban, which began as a campaign promise Trump put into action shortly after taking office. The initial version of the ban was shot down by a federal judge in Washington state as quickly as it was put together. A second reformed version faced a similar fate before a team of lawyers eventually managed to draft the version of the law approved by the Supreme Court.
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