Noah Feldman, Columnist

Can Trump Ban All Immigration? The Supreme Court Will Decide

Legal challenges will keep immigration in the news through the election.

April 21, 2020 at 5:10 PM UTC

Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People."

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It’s not an exaggeration to say that the total ban on immigration that President Donald Trump announced by tweet is among the most extreme acts of unilateral executive authority attempted by any president since World War II. It will generate immediate legal challenges, and the ensuing litigation will reach the Supreme Court sooner rather than later.

“In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens,” Trump tweeted at 10pm last night, “I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!”