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It's the NPR Politics podcast. The Supreme Court has upheld President Trump's travel ban.

This is a great victory for our Constitution. We have to be tough and we have to be safe and we have

to be secure. We're here to tell you what's in the ruling and what it means. I'm Scott Detreau.

I cover Congress. I'm Mara Liason, National Political Correspondent. And I'm Scott Horsley.

I cover the White House. This has been one of the most high-profile issues of the Trump

administration. It caused all of those demonstrations in the first few weeks of the administration,

an extended, dragged-out court battle today, a five-to-four decision. The Supreme Court says that President

Trump's travel ban was, quote, squarely within the scope of presidential authority under the

Immigration and Nationality Act. So, Mara, let's start with this. Can you remind us what the

initial travel ban actually did? Well, the initial travel ban was very broad and it covered a lot

of countries that were majority Muslim. It was struck down by a court and it had to be rewritten

and it was actually rewritten twice. Once to take out Iraq, mostly because a lot of people who had

helped the United States military effort in Iraq were blocked by that. And then later,

two countries that weren't Muslim, North Korea and Venezuela, were added to the list to kind of

water down its appearance as a Muslim ban. And that is the one that the court has finally upheld.

Yeah. So, third time was a charm for the Trump administration. They did a couple of things. They

added some non-Muslim countries. They also built in more exceptions, more latitude for the state

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