A district judge has ruled the Bush administration did not violate the Constitution when it denied the visa of one of the most prominent Muslim intellectuals in Europe. Tariq Ramadan was offered a position at the University of Notre Dame in Ohio in 2004. The Bush administration barred his entry without explanation. Following a court order, the White House later claimed it barred Ramadan because he once gave money to a French-based Palestinian charity. The charity is legal in France. On Thursday, US District Judge Paul Crotty ruled the administration has shown legitimate reasons for barring Ramadan. The American Civil Liberties Union says it will appeal. Jameel Jaffer of the ACLU’s National Security Project said, “Professor Ramadan is being excluded not because of his actions, but because of his ideas. The result is that foreign scholars will continue to be barred from the country simply because they have said things that the Bush administration disagrees with.”