Supreme Court upholds travel ban

There is a rally in front of the Supreme Court following this morning's court decision upholding President Trump's travel ban.

Protesters outside of the court are holding signs — at least one read "Build Bridges, not Walls — and chanting, "No ban, no wall!"

Farhana Khera, the executive director of Muslim Advocates, which organized at least one of the protests, called the ruling a "disappointment" but vowed that the group would keep fighting.

Following the Supreme Court's decision to uphold President Trump's travel ban, the Department of Homeland Security called the ban a "critically important executive action" that takes "important steps to protect the American people."

"The Department of Homeland Security will continue to faithfully execute our country’s immigration laws and treat everyone we encounter humanely and with professionalism," the department said in a statement.

Here's the full statement:

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a blistering dissent, said the court was wrong to ignore Trump's various comments.

"The majority here completely sets aside the President's charged statements about Muslims as irrelevant," she wrote.

She also compared today's opinion to one that came down in 1944 in which the court blessed the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

Reacting to the dissent, Chief Justice John Roberts took the unusual step to declare that the 1944 case, Korematsu vs United States, was no longer good law and was wrongly decided.

Important note: This is the first time the Supreme Court has ever made this public determination.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions called the Supreme Court's travel ban ruling a "great victory" for Americans' safety.

Sessions is in Los Angeles this morning and found out about the decision from a senior staff member. A Justice official told CNN he had a big smile on his face.

Read the rest of Sessions' statement:

President Trump called the Supreme Court's decision to uphold his travel ban a "tremendous victory" for Americans and the US constitution.

In a statement, Trump called it a "vindication" — a word one White House used when describing to CNN Trump's feeling about the ruling.

Here's the full statement:

The Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (a Muslim civil rights and advocacy group) just sent us a statement condemning the Supreme Court decision upholding the travel ban.

"This is a miscarriage of justice," CAIR-Chicago Deputy Director and counsel Sufyan Sohel said, adding, "The Supreme Court had an opportunity to remind this country that all of us, regardless of where we were born, what we look like, or how we pray, are welcome, and they failed. This ban was inspired by – and remains – contrary to the values of freedom and equality that are central to who we aspire to be as a nation."

The decision to uphold President Trump's travel ban was a 5-4 split along partisan lines.

The five who ruled in favor of the ban are...

And the four who ruled against it are...

Democrat Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, just spoke to CNN and reacted to the Supreme Court's ruling upholding Trump's travel ban.

The Supreme Court has said, “as long [Trump] puts a very thin veneer of national security on top of all that discrimination and racism, they will buy it. In other words, as long as a pig has some lipstick on it, it’s fine," Ellison said.

He added, "A gloating braggart is not going to win at the end of the day. I have deep faith, the best impulses of this country are about liberty, are about equality, are about religious liberty and freedom...we will prevail."

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions is in Los Angeles this morning and found out about the Supreme Court decision from a senior staff member.

A Justice official tells CNN he had a big smile on his face.