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White House and Political News
Supreme Court Upholds Trump’s Travel Ban In 5-4 Vote
Has It Become Dangerous To Work For President Trump? Press Secretary Sarah Sanders Getting Secret Service Protection
White House press secretary
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
has dominated the headlines this week after a restaurant owner in Lexington, Va., re- fused to serve her on Friday night and asked her to leave.
There are now reports that Sanders will receive special protection from the Secret Service.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders will now be protected by the Secret Service.
A law enforcement official revealed that the temporary protection for Sanders at her home could begin as early as Wednesday.
While the Secret Service is not commenting on the re- ports, sources have told CBS News that it is possible other White House staffers will re- ceive protection as well.
The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to ban several Muslin countries.
The Supreme Court ex- panded the president’s power to exclude entire classes of im- migrants from the country.
Its 5–4 decision in Trump v. Hawaii is a historic triumph for Donald Trump and a crush- ing blow to immigration ac- tivists, who had hoped the courts might rein in the presi- dent’s sweeping order.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s appointee to the court, cast the decisive fifth vote to uphold the ban. While Chief Justice John Roberts’ opinion for the court strives to rise above politics, Hawaii will almost certainly be remembered as a deeply parti- san opinion in which five Re- publican appointees supported
Trump.
The latest version of the ban
levels a range of travel restric- tions against five majority- Muslim countries — Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen — as well as North Korea and Venezuela. Chad, an- other majority Muslim nation, was removed from the list in April.
Although several federal courts had blocked the ban na- tionwide, the justices allowed the policy to take full effect in December pending considera- tion of the merits of the case.
The ruling on Tuesday re- verses the lower court decisions and will allow the policy to re- main in place indefinitely, al- though litigation over the ban may continue.
Judge Orders Trump Administration To Reunite Separated Families Within 30 Days
Over 2,000 children have been taken from their parents and are being held in detention camps all over U.S.
The Trump administration has 30 days to reunite migrant families split up by immigration authorities, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, in a rebuke that blocked the administration from continuing the widely re- viled practice.
The injunction signed by U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw temporarily blocks family separations while a law- suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union continues, and requires the government to put together a plan to expedite reunifications.
For children younger than
five years old, the government has only 14 days to put them back into the care of their par- ents.
Under the terms of the in- junction, the Justice Depart- ment may still prosecute parents on immigration charges when they arrive in the U.S. with their children. But the chil- dren may only remain sepa- rated for the brief time that their parents appear before a federal judge to face those charges and serve the sentences, which typically run for only a few days. The government may not continue to send the chil-
dren to shelters hundreds of miles away from their parents.
The ACLU and other immi- grant rights advocates say the executive order leaves the Trump administration with far too much discretion to keep splitting up families, and that families already separated aren’t being reunited quickly enough.
Last week, the ACLU asked a judge to take urgent action to block the governmentfrom sep- arating migrant families and to implement a plan to reunite those already split up within 30 days.
AG Jeff Sessions Makes Joke About Separating Children As Conserves Laugh; Protesters Outside Shout ‘Shame On You’
Multiple clergy members were arrested during a rally outside a federal courthouse building in Los Angeles Tues- day morning, ahead of Attor- ney General Jeff Sessions guest appearance at a lunch- eon.
Crowds shouted, “Shame on you!” as several clergy mem- bers who were blocking the street outside the U. S. attor- ney’s office in downtown L.A. were loaded into the back of police vans.
Just hours before Sessions arrived for a Criminal Justice Legal Foundation luncheon at a hotel in downtown L.A., clergy members and other ac- tivists gathered to protest the Trump administration’s immi- gration policies.
However, inside the lunch- eon later, Sessions joked about his order of ‘Zero Tole- rance’ and the separation of over 2,000 children from their immigrant parents to a laugh- ing crowd.
Sessions spoke to a crowd at the conservative-leaning Criminal Justice Legal Founda- tion, and accused critics of his
AG Jeff Sessions draws laugh- ter and cheers from conservative criminal justice folks in L.A. after joking about the separation of children. Protesters shouted ‘Shame On You’, many were ar- rested.
“zero tolerance” immigration policy of hypocrisy.
“These same people live in gated communities, many of them, and are featured at events where you have to have an ID to even come in to hear em speak. They like a little se- curity around themselves,” he said.
“If you try to scale the fence they’d be even too happy to have you arrested and sepa- rated from your children.” The last line brought laughs and a few cheers from the audience.
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