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Commentary: The travel ban decision is a blow to the Constitution and the rule of law

I have rarely seen so much inconsistency and even hypocrisy from the Supreme Court as in its decision to uphold President Donald Trump's travel ban.

A few weeks ago, the court found that members of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission had expressed impermissible hostility to religion because of relatively mild statements that every business in Colorado should serve all customers regardless of the owner's religion, and that terrible things have been done in world history in the

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