Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Tuesday that President Trump’s travel ban remains a “backward” policy that doesn’t help U.S. national security, even though the Supreme Court upheld the policy.
“The president’s travel ban doesn’t make us safer, and the Supreme Court’s ruling doesn’t make it right,” Schumer said in a statement. “This is a backward and un-American policy that fails to improve our national security.”
He spoke moments after the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of the president. The court ruled that the ban falls “squarely within” the presidential powers.
The president said the ruling is a moment of “profound vindication.”
“Today’s Supreme Court ruling is a tremendous victory for the American people and the Constitution,” the president said in a statement. “This ruling is also a moment of profound vindication following months of hysterical commentary from the media and Democratic politicians who refuse to do what it takes to secure our border and our country.”
