RantCrush Top 5: May 26, 2017

A federal appeals court ruled against Trump’s most recent iteration of the travel ban yesterday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit sided with the lower court’s decision to halt key provisions of the ban, and stated that the ban “drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimination.”

The legal battle over the ban is almost certain to make it to the Supreme Court–Attorney General Jeff Sessions has already said that the Department of Justice will be asking SCOTUS to review it. Sessions stated: “This Department of Justice will continue to vigorously defend the power and duty of the Executive Branch to protect the people of this country from danger, and will seek review of this case in the United States Supreme Court.”

This ban, the second pushed by the Trump Administration, would ban travel for 90 days from six mainly Muslim countries–Somalia, Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan, and Yemen–as well as limit the number of refugees allowed into the United States.

BREAKING: 4th Circuit largely affirms nationwide injunction blocking Trump travel ban https://t.co/GYZGcjPoAi pic.twitter.com/0vRlp8B36d

— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) May 25, 2017

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