Donnie has a bad day
Donnie lost, and he’s screaming about it on Twitter.
SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 9, 2017
No. It is not. Mass killings are horrible, but they don’t endanger the entire country – and Trump’s random ban wasn’t The Fix to prevent mass killings anyway. Trump’s ban was just a dopy arbitrary Show of Force.
A three-judge federal appeals panel on Thursday unanimously refused to reinstate President Trump’s targeted travel ban, delivering the latest and most stinging judicial rebuke to his effort to make good on a campaign promise and tighten the standards for entry into the United States.
The ruling was the first from an appeals court on the travel ban, and it was focused on the narrow question of whether it should be blocked while courts consider its lawfulness. The decision is likely to be quickly appealed to the United States Supreme Court.
That court remains short-handed and could deadlock. A 4-to-4 tie in the Supreme Court would leave the appeals court’s ruling in place.
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In written submissions and at Tuesday’s argument, lawyers for the administration said the president’s national security judgments should not be second-guessed by the courts. They added that both the Constitution and a federal law gave the president broad power to decide who may enter the United States.
Lawyers for the two states challenging the ban, Washington and Minnesota, along with their allies, told the appeals court that the ban was motivated by religious discrimination, endangered rather than enhanced the nation’s safety[,] and threatened the economy.
Other than that, it’s good stuff.
If Trump truly cared about ending mass killings, he’d ban immigration from North Carolina:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/11/robert_lewis_dear_is_one_of_many_religious_extremists_bred_in_north_carolina.html
“SEE YOU IN COURT’, yells the irate little man……to the court!
There was a story on FOX News [sic] about a Republican attempt to break up the “nutty” 9th.
Good grief, not content with gerrymandering voting districts they want to do the same with Courts!
I think the Times has been doing a good job overall reporting the activities of this administration, but there’s still this annoying tendency to use minimizing language. Saying that Trump wants to “tighten the standards for entry” is just ridiculous. He and his rabid followers didn’t want to “tighten the standards”.