In Kerry v. Din, 135 S. Ct. 2128 , 2139 (2015), the Court considered a suit by a United States citizen who alleged that the government deprived her of a liberty interest protected under the Due Process Clause by denying her husbands visa application without adequate explanation, providing only a citation to the provision under which the visa was denied. Justice Kennedy, writing for himself and Justice Alito to provide the fourth and fifth votes in favor of the government, stated that the reasoning and the holding in Mandel control here and that the reasoning of Mandel has particular force in the area of national security. Id. at 2140. He concluded that respect for the political branches broad power over the creation and administration of the immigration system meant that, because the government had provided Din with a facially legitimate and bona fide reason for its action, Din had no viable constitutional claim. Id. at 2141.