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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Thu Mar 16, 2017, 09:32 AM Mar 2017

Striking Down New Travel Ban, Court Cites Trump Adviser's Blithering On Fox News

March 16, 2017 12:16 am

Senior presidential advisor Stephen Miller’s February 21 admission of intent on Fox News has ensnared President Donald Trump’s proposed Muslim ban in its second attempted rollout.

The Trump administration’s first version of the likely unconstitutional Muslim ban was previously blocked by multiple federal judges, and one of the decisions was already unanimously upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. The 9th Circuit court noted that Trump and his supporters’ previous statements expressing their intent to discriminate on the basis of religion and ban Muslim immigration can “be used in proceedings” to prove the policy’s unconstitutionality.

For example, Trump advisor Rudy Giuliani admitted to Fox News that after Trump announced the original “Muslim ban” the then-presidential candidate asked Giuliani to show him “the right way to do it legally.”

On March 6, Trump enacted a slightly altered version of the first Muslim ban, hoping to avoid judicial concerns with the possible unconstitutionality of the original. This new “Muslim Ban 2.0” was also immediately challenged and on March 15, the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii issued a temporary restraining order on the ban.

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Striking Down New Travel Ban, Court Cites Trump Adviser's Blithering On Fox News (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2017 OP

Amazingly, this lot still thinks they're smarter than everyone else procon Mar 2017 #1

Here's the money quote: dixiegrrrrl Mar 2017 #2

procon

(15,805 posts)

1. Amazingly, this lot still thinks they're smarter than everyone else

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Mar 16, 2017, 11:20 AM

Mar 2017

They've been isolated in their far right bubble for so long that they think everyone is as batshit crazy as they are. They keep trying to disguise their Muslim ban, but then they go on camera and brag about how clever and ingenious they are for fooling all the chumps. Last night, Trump even called his last Muslim ban a "watered down version of the first one", and the federal Judges aren't buying it. Trump is so stupid he hasn't figured out that the fault is his.

dixiegrrrrl

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2. Here's the money quote:

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Mar 16, 2017, 12:57 PM

Mar 2017

the district court’s decision also cites Miller’s February 21 appearance on Fox News. In that interview, while defending the second version of the Muslim ban currently under challenge, Miller argued that “nothing was wrong with the first executive order” and admitted to host Martha MacCallum that this redraft of Trump’s executive order would be designed to “have the same basic policy outcome” as Trump’s original rejected Muslim ban.

As the court explained, “These plainly-worded statements, made in the months leading up to and contemporaneous with the signing of the Executive Order, and, in many cases, made by the Executive himself, betray the Executive Order’s stated secular purpose. Any reasonable, objective observer would conclude, as does the Court for purposes of the instant Motion for TRO, that the stated secular purpose of the Executive Order is, at the very least, “secondary to a religious objective” of temporarily suspending the entry of Muslims.”

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