The Supreme Court, on the day before Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement, upheld President Trump's ban on travel to the United States from seven countries, five of them overwhelmingly Muslim. In Trump v. Hawaii, the court majority refused to consider the president's statements of anti-Muslim hostility that led up to the ban—as a presidential candidate, he had said “I think Islam hates us” and called for “a total and complete shutdown” of Muslims entering the country.
But earlier this month, the court decided in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case that a civil rights commission's order that a baker serve same-sex weddings was invalidated by the statements of two commissioners displaying hostility toward the baker's religious belief in traditional marriage.
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