Trump foolishly asked his DOJ to foolishly argue that presidential power on immigration and national security is absolutely unlimited, with zero checks or balances whatsoever.
The 9th Circuit's opinion is pretty clear in listing the rock-solid legal precedents that support their ruling.
Even if President Bannon and his frontman Trump decide to appeal to the US Supreme Court, the only way they would win is if at least 5 justices agree with the DOJ's foolish argument.
Now what are the odds that 5 exceedingly intelligent and legally trained lifelong career jurists, no matter how conservative or liberal in their personal views, will suddenly roll over and say "Surprise! We just realized that the entire US judiciary has been far too powerful and far too involved in government, so we're gonna overrule all our precedents and take ourselves a massive step down in authority."?
Trump will see the courts in court
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>this amount of shitposting at twitter
trump is canada of US presidents
Where's this stake location?
I wouldn't be surprised if the SCOTUS opinion was unanimous. Even if they're wanton conservative partisans, they still have to play the long game. The justices will be in office til they retire or die. Trump will be here a maximum of 8, more likely 4, and maybe even less if he's impeached. For all Roberts knows, the next president may be a die hard liberal from the Bernie Sanders wing of the party. The last thing he wants to do is establish precedent that the executive has completely unchecked power on any issue.
If he says the president has broad discretion, but can still leave room, that leaves room to check future liberal presidents. If the president he agrees that the executive has unchecked authority, then he can't argue against his own precedent. Today the case is Trump barring Muslims or building a border wall. Maybe next election a crazy anti-Trump gets elected, and just goes nuts, opens all the border checkpoints and says, "we're going back to the 1800s solution. Everybody come on in!!"
Trumps order is completely legal, President can ban aliens based on country of organ.
Cite the cases that give your statement legal precedence.
Many folks don't realize how mentally disciplined the practice of law is. It's easy and common to assume that political favors will dominate, like in the other two co-equal branches of government.
Of course, since they're still human, there might be some influence from politics, but at the end of the day, each Justice still needs to write or agree with a coherent line of strict legal reasoning that properly arrives at his/her conclusion from settled legal precedents and principles.
you, the media, and all the other retards took the bait!
How come you guys didn't chimp out like this when Obama banned immigration from various countries 19 times?
Because he didn't ban people already issued Visas.