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timelets ([personal profile] timelets) wrote2017-02-09 06:27 pm

A tremendous opportunity for mass entertainment lost

Unfortunately, the court denied the appeal over the ban of Trump's travel ban today. They should've done it this Friday night instead, so that we could see Trump's unedited tweets on Saturday when Ivanka and Jared are on Shabbat. Too bad.

On the substance, the court wrote that both the EO and the appeal were pieces of shit shoddy legal work, poorly designed and poorly executed. Go back, said the court, and do you homework.


The Government contends that the district court lacked authority to enjoin enforcement of the Executive Order because the President has “unreviewable authority to suspend the admission of any class of aliens.”
The Government does not merely argue that courts owe substantial deference to the immigration and national security policy determinations of the political branches—an uncontroversial principle that is well-grounded in our jurisprudence.
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There is no precedent to support this claimed unreviewability, which runs contrary to the fundamental structure of our constitutional democracy.