If the Court acknowledges that what the President is doing is neither unconstitutional or illegal, then any other opinion or ruling they bring forth on the matter should be irrelevant. They’re a court of law. What’s the law?
“If the Court acknowledges that what the President is doing is neither unconstitutional or illegal, then any other opinion or ruling they bring forth on the matter should be irrelevant. They’re a court of law. What’s the law?”
Perfectly stated. They are morphing into a “court of motives”. Remember during the travel ban, they were giving clips of Trump in the campaign more weight than the actual legal reasoning.
Rule of law is over, and we are no longer in a constitutional republic. At this point it is a tyrannical oligarchy, and everything has to be stated in the format of the constitution using sophistry.
For what it's worth it's the Administrative Procedures Act and it says that even if an agency has the right to make a decision that decision can't be arbitrary and capricious.
Wilbur Ross botched the whole thing but he's being given a do-over.