U.S. Supreme Court,
International Law,
Immigration,
Government
Jun. 27, 2018
High court travel ban ruling will have broad impact
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Trump administration's travel ban in a now familiar 5-4 alignment.
Gabriel J. Chin
Edward L. Barrett chair of law, Martin Luther King, Jr. professor of law, and director of Clinical Legal Education
UC Davis School of Law
OCTOBER 2017 TERM
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Trump administration's travel ban in a now familiar 5-4 alignment. Trump v. Hawaii, 2018 DJDAR 6193 (June 26, 2018). A takeaway from Chief Justice John Roberts' majority opinion is the possible weakening of the "plenary power doctrine" under which immigration classifications are not subject to judicial review. The court indicated that even in the immigr...
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