Huawei Fails to Overturn U.S. Ban on Federal Contracting

Huawei Technologies USA Inc. failed to convince a Texas federal court that the U.S. government’s decision to ban the company from federal contracting constituted an unconstitutional bill of attainder, a Tuesday ruling said.

The U.S. Supreme Court has only struck down five laws as unconstitutional bills of attainder, also known as legislative punishments without trial, since 1789.

The ban in section 889 of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act doesn’t punish Huawei based on infamy and disloyalty, Judge Amos L. Mazzant of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas said.

The purpose of the ban is ...