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SOURCE: Vox
6-26-18
The travel ban decision echoes some of the worst Supreme Court decisions in history
by Aziz Huq
The logic SCOTUS used to uphold the travel ban would justify Japanese internment camps.
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SOURCE: Time Magazine
6-26-18
Supreme Court’s Travel-Ban Includes Surprise Ruling: Japanese Internment Was Wrong
The decision explicitly renounced the Korematsu decision.
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SOURCE: NYT
4-16-18
Travel Ban Case Is Shadowed by One of Supreme Court’s Darkest Moments
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a 1942 executive order that sent more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry to internment camps.
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SOURCE: The Boston Globe
9-26-17
Borders are back and a new game looms
by Niall Ferguson
European elites sneer compulsively at Trump, but polls show that majorities of their citizens would support a similar ban on Muslim immigration into the European Union.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
7-21-17
North Korean travel ban marks return to Cold War-era restrictions on U.S. citizens abroad
The decision to ban travel by U.S. citizens to a foreign country marks an unusual policy shift for the State Department, harking back to restrictions on travel not widely used since the Cold War era.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
6-26-17
Trump’s travel ban is built on a law meant to ‘protect’ the U.S. from Jews and communists
The law came out of the subcommittee of Sen. Pat McCarran (D-Nev.) in the 1950s.
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SOURCE: Huffington Post
5-8-17
Trump Administration Cites Segregation-Era Ruling To Defend Its Travel Ban
In 1971, the Supreme Court decided that courts shouldn’t investigate the motivations of officials who closed public pools rather than integrate them.
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SOURCE: CNN
4-26-17
Mormon history scholars file court brief over Trump travel ban
They draw a parallel with believe the federal government’s targeting of Mormons in the 19th century.
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