The travel ban is terrible policy, helping jihadists and hurting American security. But it's probably legal (at least the revised version). Americans realizing--yet again--that presidential power was checked not by laws, but the norm-following decency of previous officeholders.
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The law grants POTUS the power to change immigration rules for national security reasons, and to determine what constitutes those national security reasons. It does not have an exemption for bigotry, stupidity, or anything else. Travel ban is terrible policy. But probably legal.
7:04 AM - 24 Apr 2018
from Urbana, IL
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