Supreme Court probably right to uphold travel ban. Terrible policy, and Congress's responsibility. But Congress ceded a giant national security exemption to the president. And who determines what qualifies as "national security"? POTUS. Bad law. Easily abused. But still the law.
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Legal... yes. But smart from a geopolitical sense... no? This will be used as propaganda and will make our allies/potential allies less likely to trust us. I am not even going to get into the moral/ethical side.
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Right. Not smart in a geopolitical sense. Not at all. But legal.
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yes by a vote
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I find Sotomayor’s dissent powerful. Efforts to show this is not a Muslim ban are a sham. 1st Amendment says we must tolerate refusal to sell gays a wedding cake, but religious tolerance is irrelevant here? Repeats court’s mistakes on Japanese-American internment.
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That's where my heart is. But I think an objective reading says the travel ban is different enough from Japanese-American internment--for example, the ban affects some non-Muslims, and leaves many Muslims unaffected--that it passes Constitutional muster. Narrowly. But still.
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I was leaning there upon reading the majority opinion. But I felt she was thorough in showing that efforts to make this a "not Muslim ban" were just window dressing. First Amendment ought to prevail.
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And only needed for a short time while he “figures out what’s going on,” T-Rump said 2-3 years ago. That should be any day now, surely???
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Agree entirely. However this court has also shown indifference to precedent in the past. I worry institutional rot of the court makes the adherence to precedent and the legislatures another norm that the court abuses but is granted a certain legitimacy regardless
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