BREAKING: Appeals court denies Trump administration request to reinstate ban

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

You cannot have a judge appointed to a life term overrule an executive decision by the President.

...yes you can?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

The difference between Carter, Obama, and Trump. Two of them had expert lawyers that could draft lawful EOs.

I thought Obama was an expert lawyer on his own merits.

That's... kind of the point. Trump on the other hand has clearly never even read the Constitution.

I doubt Trump reads in general.

The vast majority of Americans don't read. Popular opinion is that it's "boring" and that people who do read are stupid. Doesn't probably hurt that most people who hold that opinion probably can't read at a high school level.

To be fair the way reading, especially critical and literary reading, is taught to most people in this country is pretty godawful.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

On the point of constitutionality, the US has banned immigration on similar grounds before many times. We banned Chinese coal workers for fear that they were stealing American jobs. We banned Jewish refugees (Judaism is a religion btw) from Germany during WWII. We've even banned Iranians before during the hostage crisis in the 70's. In all of these cases the constitutionality held. The 9th would be overturning quite the precedent in ruling this unconstitutional.

That's why I mentioned the liberals seem to be on the wrong side of history on this one.

Courses of action are either right or they're wrong. History doesn't have "sides".