President Donald Trump tweeted out a "Wow!" Attorney General Jeff Sessions just smiled, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell let one picture say 1,000 words in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's decision Tuesday to uphold the president's travel ban.
Conservatives hailed the decision as a victory for the Trump administration.
Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton said the court has "rightly upheld this common-sense, longstanding practice" of the president making decisions regarding immigration.
Cotton added that he hoped the ruling would "end once and for all the tortured reasoning of liberal judges who make up new legal doctrines because they personally disapprove of the president."
Former Congressman Jason Chaffetz provided this analysis, saying "I think it'll give the president more authority to go after certain countries where we can't vet people."
As did Bill O'Reilly:
Judge Andrew Napolitano broke it down on Fox News:
"The lower federal courts in California … kept harping on the words of the president when he was a candidate. And the dissenters went on it. The Supreme Court majority said today we don't care what he said as a candidate. We only care what he wrote as the president," Judge Nap said.
"And when he wrote this executive order, he cited his authority under the constitution to formulate the foreign policy of the nation and to secure the nation's borders," Judge Nap said. "And he cited the statute that Congress gave him which permits him to exercise an absolute and total ban on people from countries whom he believes would be harmful if they enter the United States.
"That's all the court wants to look at," Napolitano said.
And for those crying sour grapes over a court liberals say should have Merrick Garland instead of Neil Gorsuch, Glenn Greenwald offered this:
"What the GOP did in blocking Obama's last SCOTUS appointment was outrageous, but those assuming Merrick Garland would have voted to invalidate Trump's travel ban are making assumptions inconsistent with his judicial record."
Other conservative reaction:
"The @realDonaldTrump temporary travel pause just upheld by the Supreme Court only affects 6 of the world’s 49 Muslim-majority nations. In other words, 43 Muslim-majority nations are unaffected. Nowhere in the text are delineations... made based on faith," Kayleigh McEnany tweeted.
Napolitano put a fine point on SCOTUS' ruling.
"They don't care about whether this policy is wise. They don't care about why the president said he is doing this. They only care about what the president did and whether it is constitutional," Judge Nap said. "And because it is A, foreign policy, and B, relies on a statute that specifically authorizes him to do it, it is constitutional.
"Not necessarily wise, not necessarily prudent, not even necessarily fair, but constitutional. And therefore it's the law of the land," Napolitano said.
"They aren't supposed to comment on policy. Policy is for the president and the Congress," Napolitano said.
SCOTUS doesn't "care about the rhetoric in the campaign in which the order was promised. They only care about what the order did, how it came about and whether it is consistent with law and the constitution and the answer is yes," Judge Nap said.
Newsmax staff writer Todd Beamon contributed to this report.
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