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Read: Supreme Court upholds travel ban

The justices just issued a long-awaited ruling in Trump v. Hawaii.

Activists protest the travel ban outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC.
Activists protest the travel ban outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC.
Activists protest the travel ban outside the US Supreme Court on December 7, 2017, in Washington, DC.
Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

The Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump’s travel ban Tuesday by a vote of 5 to 4, ruling that Trump’s decision to ban or restrict travel and immigration from seven countries, most of them majority-Muslim, was within his constitutional authority.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, with the court’s four liberals — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan — dissenting.

Read the decision from the Supreme Court in Trump v. Hawaii here.

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