*“ “Hawaii fought the first and second travel bans because they were illegal and unconstitutional efforts to implement the president’s Muslim ban. Unfortunately, the third travel ban is more of the same,” - AG Doug Chin **
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Is the president's Muslim ban unconstitutional? One view by one Eric Posner says it is not:
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"The Supreme Court has held consistently, for more than a century, that constitutional protections that normally benefit Americans and people on American territory do not apply when Congress decides who to admit and who to exclude as immigrants or other entrants. This is called the plenary power doctrine. ...
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"But any honest answer to a journalist’s question about whether Trump’s plan to ban Muslim immigration is unconstitutional should start with the plenary powers doctrine, and observe that it would be an uphill battle to persuade the Supreme Court to abandon a century of precedent." http://ericposner.com/is-an-immigration-ban-on-muslims-unconstitutional/