HL 39 – The Fourth Circuit’s Travel Ban Decision Rejects Trump’s Attempt to Establish a State Religion
For a time, top of mind and above the fold was news of Trump’s travel bans, classic and redux and their serial invalidation by federal district courts around the country. But recently the Fourth Circuit, comprised of Maryland, the Virginias and the Carolinas, became the first appellate court to rule against the ban. The news was drowned out by “the Russia thing” then Trump’s renunciation of the Paris Climate Accord and finally the Tower Bridge/Borough Market atrocities. Time to pause and give the Fourth Circuit its due and consider what that court was really rejecting – de facto establishment of state religion as much or more than institutionalized Islamophobia. Chief Judge Roger Gregory, Fourth Circuit Remember the big word “antidisestablishmentarianism?” For people of [...]