Langevin Statement on Supreme Court Ruling Upholding Trump Travel Ban

Congressman Jim Langevin (D-RI), a senior member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in Trump v. Hawaii:

“I am deeply disappointed in today’s Supreme Court ruling to keep President Trump’s travel ban in place. As I made clear during questioning of then DHS Secretary Kelly, there is no specific intelligence backing this ban, and it can only be viewed as an expression of the President’s ill will toward Muslims. Discrimination of this sort is unjustifiable and directly contradicts the American ideals of freedom and opportunity. I trust that the lower courts will, upon further review, continue to brand this xenophobic policy as immoral and unlawful.”