The U.S. Supreme Court awarded the Trump administration another victory Tuesday as it dismissed the second and last legal challenge to the President’s original travel ban.  The dismissal serves as the final blow to leftist litigation in protest of Trump’s first executive order on refugees and migrants from select countries, temporarily halting entrance into the U.S.

Trump’s initial order was replaced in September by a revised list of travel sanctions for eight countries.  Legal protest of those new restrictions is pending.

The original ban’s first challenge was dismissed in court on October 10th, having originated in Maryland and concerning six countries with strong connections to terrorism.  Authorities in that case ruled that the order’s expiration rendered the case moot.  The second lawsuit emanated from Hawaii, in protest of the order’s prohibition of migrant entry as well as its 120-day moratorium on the resettlement of refugees.  

The October 10th decision by a federal court in Trump’s favor confidently forecasted a similar ruling in the Maryland case, and justices indeed reached the same conclusion that the case was mooted.

Subsequent to the higher courts’ decision, a legal rule known as the Munsingwear doctrine automatically vacates any lower court rulings, which occurred in both the Hawaii case and the Maryland challenge.

The Trump administration requested a dismissal of both cases in September.  

The Left put forth a unanimous outcry in response to Trump’s orders, replete with melodramatic charges of racism and Islamophobia, going so far as to label the original order a “Muslim travel ban.”  This made no sense (surprise!) however, given that the temporary restrictions were related to security restructuring and due to the fact that multiple of the world’s most Muslim-majority countries were not included in the sanctions.  Furthermore, Obama also engaged in similar temporary restrictions; but of course, the Left was cool as a cucumber when he was pulling the strings.