Rep. Keith Ellison Rails Against SCOTUS Over Travel Ban Ruling: ‘Tailor-Made’ For Trump’s ‘Ugly Philosophy’

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) was furious about the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the travel ban, he told CNN’s Kate Bolduan Tuesday.

“The Supreme Court has said that no matter how bad the discriminatory language is, before, during and after President Trump’s run and his service, as long as he puts a very thin veneer of national security on top of all that discrimination and racism, they will buy it,” Ellison said. “As long as a pig has some lipstick on it, it’s fine, and that is what they have said.”

“The people who believe in dignity of all people, who believe in freedom of faith and freedom of religion in America, we’re not going to stop fighting,” he continued. “In fact this is going to enliven us, this is going to inspire us to push even further and harder to establish the dignity of all people in this country. We’re not daunted here. We’re going to keep on pressing.”

Ellison went on to say that the newest member of the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, was only there because the Republicans denied a hearing for Barack Obama‘s nominee, Merrick Garland.

“If you steal and rip off a Supreme Court justice, then you can try to jam any kind of nasty racist ugly policy you can down the throats of the American people,” Ellison said, seething. “But we’re not taking it.”

“Our country has gone through some ugly days,” he added. “I mean, the Supreme Court in the 1850s said it was okay to own a black person. That was the Dred Scott decision. That decision hit the dustbin of history, so did Plessy v. Ferguson, so did Korematsu, and this one will, too.”

“[Trump] has his Supreme Court tailor-made to his ugly philosophy, this partisan’s court,” Ellison later said. “Gorsuch should really not be on the Supreme Court. In my view, he may be there, but he’s not there properly. You can do that. You know, you can jam in a Supreme Court by denying a sitting president their right to appoint the Supreme Court justice. That’s exactly what happened and Gorsuch has just done what his paymasters sent him there to do.”

“It’s a shame, but I just know and have deep faith that the best impulses of this country are about liberty, are about equality, are about religious liberty and freedom and it’s just not going to stop and we will prevail.”

Watch above, via CNN.

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