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‘Deeply Disappointed’: Ellison, CAIR React To SCOTUS Upholding Travel Ban
WCCO.com ^ | 6/26/18 | WCCO Staff

Posted on 06/26/2018 10:37:33 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

Rep. Keith Ellison and the Council of America-Islamic Relations (CAIR) are quickly reacting after the Supreme Court voted to uphold President Trump’s travel ban Tuesday.

The 5-4 decision Tuesday is the court’s first substantive ruling on a Trump administration policy. Trump tweeted “Wow!” after the decision.

Not long after the decision, CAIR, which is the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, announced it will be holding a news conference at 11:15 a.m. Tuesday. There will also be a rally at 6 p.m. held in Minneapolis in front of the federal court house, protesting the decision.

Rep. Keith Ellison also released a statement, saying he’s “deeply disappointed that this ruling gives legitimacy to discrimination and Islamophobia.”

Ellison spoke with WCCO’s Esme Murphy on Facebook Live shortly after the decision.

“This decision is outside of the consensus that we have as Americans that people have the right to be whatever faith they want to be,” Ellison said.

Ellison says, despite what the policy is called, it’s really a Muslim ban.

“What the Supreme Court has said is, ‘as long as you put a thin vainer of national security over the most discriminatory policy, we’ll buy it,’” Ellison said. “Essentially they’ve said, ‘as long as you put lipstick on that pig, we’ll just call it something else.’”

Ellison says the travel ban is a big factor in his recent decision to run as Attorney General for Minnesota.

“I know that this decision will meet the dust bin of history, just like all those other nasty, ugly decisions [by the Supreme Court],” Ellison said.

Senate hopeful Karin Housley issued a statement also Tuesday morning, saying: “Today’s Supreme Court rulings are a victory for the rule of law and the constitution – but also highlight the importance of the upcoming elections. Over the next several years, the U.S. Senate will likely confirm one or more justices to the Supreme Court, and with such a narrow Senate majority, November’s elections may be among the most consequential in our lifetime. We cannot allow far-left radicals like Tina Smith to pick our next Supreme Court justice – and as a United States Senator, I will advocate for Supreme Court justices that respect our constitution and uphold our rule of law. At this critical juncture in our nation’s history, adherence to our constitution has never been more important; our freedoms, our safety, and our security as a nation depends on it.”

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, joined by his four conservative colleagues. Roberts wrote that presidents have substantial power to regulate immigration.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blackmuslims; boogedyboogedy; bordersecurity; cair; ellison; maga; sharia; sharialaw; travelban
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Keith is sad...

Which makes me HAPPY!

1 posted on 06/26/2018 10:37:34 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I suppose cair being sad makes you ecstatic? LOL! Does me. Lib heads a poppin’! BANG!


2 posted on 06/26/2018 10:38:58 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Channeling Nelson Muntz now: “ha hah!”


3 posted on 06/26/2018 10:39:30 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Watta frickin’ POS Ellison is.......

I hope the desperate Dems keep him out there spouting his fool mouth off.


4 posted on 06/26/2018 10:39:48 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Rurudyne

5 posted on 06/26/2018 10:42:01 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Can we all agree: "Trump’s order is NOT a 'TRAVEL BAN'? It is an INVASION BAN order.

This issue is not "travel". The issue is invasion. This is a most basic constitutional issue that mandates the federal government stop invasion.

The United States...shall protect each [state] against invasion
U.S. Const. art. IV, sec. 4.

Trump's argument is first and foremost a Constitutional argument, not a federal statute argument. Illegal immigration and immigration of our enemies are INVASION which the Constitution specifically mandates the federal government to prevent. Don't repeat the Lying Leftists Labels. This and related articles should be posted as an Invasion Ban Order.

6 posted on 06/26/2018 10:42:21 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I may just watch MSNBC tonight to see the angst of Rachel Maddow and the boys. I’m sure they will be horrified by this ruling.


7 posted on 06/26/2018 10:43:45 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

LOL! Oh I feel so bad that Keith is so sad...................NOT! Still not tired of winning!


8 posted on 06/26/2018 10:44:36 AM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

They must not only be kept disappointed but marginalized. Voters in swing districts and competitive Senate races must be made to understand that the Democrat/globalists favor open borders and if they achieve legislative, executive or judicial power will implement policies that will end the American constitutional nation and destroy its culture. Either vote Republican or become subjects of the UN.


9 posted on 06/26/2018 10:44:43 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: Liz

Watching Ellison melt was hilarious.

He is not running for re-election. He is running for AG here in Minnesota. He wants to protect the zillions of muslims who live in the Cedar/ Riverside Little Mogadishu area of Minneapolis. They send millions of dollars in cash back to Somalia. money that was stolen from Minnesota taxpayers through numerous fraud methods, mainly the daycare scams.


10 posted on 06/26/2018 10:44:53 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I bet Cnn is having more major vapors today! I just might go and turn on TV just to watch that!


11 posted on 06/26/2018 10:45:54 AM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Islam does not fit with our Constitutional values & has no place in our society because of that. If Keith Ellison doesn’t like that,he can leave. He won’t be missed.


12 posted on 06/26/2018 10:46:07 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Enemy islamist laments monkey wrench in enemy islamist dar al-hab.


13 posted on 06/26/2018 10:46:17 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

The result should have 9-0

For a justice to vote otherwise is to say the President does NOT have authority to control the Federal immigration bureaucracy. It should have been as clear as day.


14 posted on 06/26/2018 10:47:02 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Her’s hoping she gets verklempt.


15 posted on 06/26/2018 10:47:24 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: PGR88

Winning! I’m not tired yet. It ids pathetic that the minority 4 in this decision either can’t comprehend the Constitution or can’t read. What pathetic LIB loons.


16 posted on 06/26/2018 10:48:33 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Yeah. Life’s a bitch for Islamofacist Marxists, when the constitution works


17 posted on 06/26/2018 10:49:57 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

He used to be my Congressman until I moved out of the district.

When Keith Ellison is sad or disappointed, then I’m definitely happy!


18 posted on 06/26/2018 10:51:12 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: shelterguy

“He wants to protect the zillions of muslims who live in the Cedar/ Riverside Little Mogadishu area of Minneapolis.

Have you been out to Eden Prairie, Faribault or Willmar lately? Those areas are not min his district but there’s growing amounts of Somalis there too.

I live in Eden Prairie. I can attest to it.


19 posted on 06/26/2018 10:53:32 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Are they going to chase Roberts and Gorsuch out of restaurants now?

-PJ

20 posted on 06/26/2018 10:54:23 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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