Jennifer Gordon was quoted in a Guardian article about the Supreme Court allowing parts of President Trump’s travel ban to take effect.
“I think it’s a vast exaggeration to say this is a victory for the president,” said Jennifer Gordon, a professor of law at Fordham University who focuses on immigration.
Noting that at least five justices agreed on the need to grant visas to individuals with a “credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States”, Gordon argued that the court’s decision reflected a seemingly majority consensus that the Trump administration could not implement an outright ban on immigrants from the six-Muslim majority countries.
“In fact, you might read it as a signal … that the president might well lose on this,” she said.