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Supreme Court Partially Revives Travel Ban, Will Hear Appeal (bloomberg.com)

From a report: The U.S. Supreme Court partially revived President Donald Trump's travel ban and said the justices will hear arguments in the fall. The justices said the ban can apply for now only to people who don't have a "credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States." From a NYT report: Mr. Trump's revised executive order, issued in March, limited travel from six mostly Muslim countries for 90 days and suspended the nation's refugee program for 120 days. The time was needed, the order said, to address gaps in the government's screening and vetting procedures. [...] The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, recently blocked both the limits on travel and the suspension of the refugee program. It ruled on statutory rather than constitutional grounds, saying Mr. Trump had exceeded the authority granted him by Congress. The court agreed to review both cases, and said it would hear arguments in October, noting that the government had not asked it to act faster.

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  1. Re:Then.. fine, I'm a racist. by BlueStrat · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    There are over a billion Muslims, that kind of makes the "cult" claim a bit absurd, and not all Muslims, so far as I'm aware, throw homosexuals off of buildings. In fact, it looks like it's a pretty damned small minority. Not that devout Muslims clearly don't have issues with homosexuals, but then again, I can go to a conservative Catholic forum and see the same anti-gay vitriol.

    Just because a cult has a large following does not disqualify the 'cult' status, as Islam is a death-cult.

    You point out that there's over a billion Muslims, and your claim of a "small percentage" being radical is arguable, but even a fraction of a billion people who believe God orders them to kill unbelievers and/or enslave them is one hell of a threat in anyone's book who is even remotely rational.

    Please stop with the absurd comparisons between Muslims and Christians. Besides, even if every Christian horror story the Left spews were true, you can't justify bad actions of one with bad actions of another. "But Johnny did it too!" is the excuse of a 6-year-old. Are you emotionally/intellectually older than six?

    Strat

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