Supreme Court Rules that President Trump’s Travel Ban Is Constitutional

The Supreme Court found today that President Donald J. Trump’s order on travel restrictions falls “squarely” within his executive authority, Tucker Higgins reports for CNBC. “The [order] is expressly premised on legitimate purposes: preventing entry of nationals who cannot be adequately vetted and inducing other nations to improve their practices,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority.

“Our country will always be safe, secure, and protected on my watch,” President Trump said in a statement today.

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In Fox Business, Suzanne O’Halloran writes that since President Trump signed tax cuts into law, American money is flowing back into America’s heartland. “Over $300 billion was repatriated to the U.S. in the first quarter, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) -- the most on record.”

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In the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, state Rep. Melissa Melendez (R-CA) writes that “instead of continuing to punt the proverbial football down the field for political gain, or pushing a radical and inhumane open borders agenda, Democrats should come to the table and fulfill their constitutional duties.”

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“The United States is now producing enough natural gas and other fuels to be on the verge of energy independence. This positive development is untying the hands of our elected leadership, and enabling it to conduct foreign policy in a way that advances this Nation and its allies' interests,” writes Energy Secretary Rick Perry in the Washington Examiner.

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“It is time to call this economy and the attendant optimism what it is: the Trump boom,” FreedomWorks President Adam Brandon writes in The Hill. “America is open for business. Most significantly, America is open for small business. Trump is the most supportive small business leader the nation has seen in recent memory.”