Not sure which is worse
1) #TravelBan is, as critics say, a #MuslimBan
2) White House genuinely thinks it's smart counterterrorism strategy
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Replying to @wwwwwww2y @Roy__Cohn
While campaigning, Trump called for a complete shutdown of all Muslims entering the United States. In office, he banned travel/entry from...
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7 predominantly Muslim countries. No one from any of those countries had committed a deadly terrorist attack on US soil...
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critics therefore believe the administration's main goal was reducing the number of Muslims coming to the US, not preventing terrorism.
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The courts that struck down the first two travel bans did so for that reason (discriminating based on religion).
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The Supreme Court partially overturned and partially upheld those rulings while waiting to hear arguments.
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The legal issue is complicated. Lower courts ruled based on more than one campaign remark, but the Supreme Court appears likely to reverse.
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But my focus is on strategy, not law. The ban is bad strategy, and I'm not sure which reasoning behind it would bother me more.
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