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Deconstructed

The White Supremacy Court Upholds the Muslim Ban

Deconstructed

The Intercept

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4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

On Tuesday the Supreme Court handed the president a huge victory in Trump v. Hawaii, the case challenging the legality of his executive order barring citizens of five Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. The verdict upholding the ban generated a wave of condemnation across the country. On this special episode of Deconstructed, Mehdi Hasan speaks with Keith Ellison, the first Muslim-American ever elected to Congress, as well as Yemeni-American community organizer and anti-ban activist Debbie Almontaser.

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0:00.0

It'll be thrown on the dustbin of history and it'll be something that we look back on in shame.

0:04.3

It's just important for people to keep the faith, keep on pushing, keep voting, keep protesting,

0:08.8

perhaps more than ever.

0:14.1

Dred Scott vs. Sanford, Plessy vs. Ferguson,

0:17.8

Kauramatsu vs. the United States, and now, Trump vs. Hawaii, the latest shameful and

0:24.2

despicable ruling from the United States Supreme Court, upholding Donald Trump's Muslim

0:28.8

ban as legitimate.

0:30.0

Donald Trump is celebrating what he says is a clear victory for national security.

0:35.2

After the Supreme Court partially reinstated his travel ban on people from six Muslim majority

0:40.8

countries.

0:41.8

A ruling which will join that list of shameful and despicable rulings that have so stained

0:47.8

and darken the history of the United States.

0:50.3

I'm Mehdi Hassan and welcome to this special early episode of Deconstructed,

0:54.8

where we're reacting to that major Supreme Court ruling and talking to leading Muslim

0:59.1

Americans about where we go from here.

1:01.0

Thank you for asking me how I feel because I'm doing a lot of feeling right now.

1:05.2

This is the time when you have to have faith that if you keep on pushing and standing for

1:10.7

what's right and telling the truth that we will, God willing, prevail.

1:15.2

That was Congressman Keith Ellison, the first Muslim America to ever be elected to Congress.

1:19.4

He's on the show today as is Yemeni American Community Organizer and Anti-Ban Activist

1:24.8

Debbie Al-Montezer.

1:25.7

This morning when I heard the decision, I simply felt like someone punched me so hard in this

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