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    Justices vote 5-4 to uphold president's travel ban

    by David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times Jun 27, 2018 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump the most significant legal victory of his presidency Tuesday, upholding the administration's ban on foreign visitors and immigrants from several mostly Muslim countries.

    By a 5-4 vote, the court's conservative justices bolstered the chief executive's power to control the borders, just as he is battling a growing crisis over the separation of families crossing illegally along the border with Mexico.

    The majority rejected arguments that Trump overstepped his presidential authority and that his targeting of Muslim-majority countries violated the Constitution's ban on religious discrimination.

    "For more than a century, this court has recognized the admission and exclusion of foreign nationals" is a matter for the president and Congress, and is "largely immune from judicial control," Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said for the court. "Foreign nationals seeking admission have no constitutional right to entry."

    The majority dismissed assertions that Trump's history

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