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In Intense Arguments, Supreme Court Appears Ready To Side With Trump On Travel Ban
npr.com ^ | April 25, 2018 | Nina Totenberg

Posted on 04/25/2018 10:15:22 AM PDT by John W

During arguments at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, the justices seemed, by a narrow margin, to be leaning toward upholding the the third iteration of the Trump travel ban.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, who is often the deciding vote in close cases, for example, made repeated comments suggesting that the court does not usually second-guess a president's national security decisions — even in the context of an immigration law that is seen as banning discrimination based on nationality.

If the court does decide in favor of the government — a decision is expected in June — it would be a big win for one of the pillars of the president's politics. It's an issue that animates the bases of both parties, appealing to the grievance politics of Trump's supporters and outraging the moral sensibilities of the left. Between the travel ban and the proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, that idea of exclusion is fueling the resistance to Trump and firing up liberals for this year's midterms.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aliens; bordersecurity; braking; immigration; lawsuit; ruling; scotus; search; trump; trumpscotus; trumptravelban
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To: John W

Thank God for President Trump.

Could you imagine how much faster we’d be going on the highway to hell with Shrillary at the helm?


21 posted on 04/25/2018 10:33:39 AM PDT by karnage
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To: John W

Won’t help.

Some Federal Judge from Hawaii will simply issue a stay order on the Supreme Court decision, then overturn them later this month.


22 posted on 04/25/2018 10:34:10 AM PDT by Lazamataz (What America needs is more Hogg control.)
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To: Mariner

See my post 12.

I predicted this many years ago as the Invasion from Mexico amplified.

The Left now believes that ANY impediment to the inflow of non-whites is illegal discrimination, i.e., exclusion.

IOW the very border itself is discriminatory.

Any sensible nation is built on the notion of the first fundamental notion of property rights: exclusion and control by the inhabitants, who are self selecting.

What they are advocating is the abolition of the nation as it’s physical boundaries have to be considered as a violation of the rights of foreigners to ingress at will and occupy our land.

That is what they are saying with this lawsuit, and what they are now testing for the fall elections: abolition of CBP, open borders, no immigration laws whatsoever.

How that would be functionally different from Invasion, I have no idea.


23 posted on 04/25/2018 10:37:09 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: robroys woman
In a sane world with a non-politicized court, this would be a slam-dunk 9-0 decision.

You're right. Seems liberals on the Court want to do a power grab if possible.

24 posted on 04/25/2018 10:38:42 AM PDT by GOPJ (Andrew McCabe ex-cop - and a pretty one at that- prison's not going to be much fun - KurtSchlichter)
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To: Lazamataz
Some Federal Judge from Hawaii will simply issue a stay order on the Supreme Court decision, then overturn them later this month.

Please tell me a Federal Judge cannot stay the order of the USSC.
25 posted on 04/25/2018 10:38:47 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: John W

Sounds somewhat promising, but never assume anything with the SCOTUS. They have a huge capacity to disappoint.


26 posted on 04/25/2018 10:39:48 AM PDT by ScottinVA ( Liberals, go find another country.)
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To: John W

I hope so! the best thing DJT can do is keep m*slims out of this country.


27 posted on 04/25/2018 10:41:07 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Signalman
Please tell me a Federal Judge cannot stay the order of the USSC.

Before we became a Post-Constitutional country, you'd be right.

However, the left just makes it up these days.

And if Trump stops the Federal Judge, the left will IMMEDIATELY move to impeach.

28 posted on 04/25/2018 10:43:09 AM PDT by Lazamataz (What America needs is more Hogg control.)
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To: John W

NPR is seriously BUTT Hurt.


29 posted on 04/25/2018 10:43:55 AM PDT by LeonardFMason (426)
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To: John W

Things like this take time when dealing with decades long all powerful, entrenched deep state.

Go Trump!


30 posted on 04/25/2018 10:45:43 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: John W

Discrimination is forbidden by a 1964 statute. It is not a constitutional matter. The POTUS’ prerogative to bar entry to foreign nationals on any basis at all, is. This discussion is retarded.


31 posted on 04/25/2018 10:46:13 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: John W

“...appealing to the grievance politics of Trump’s supporters and outraging the moral sensibilities of the left.”

Dream on. Stay in your bubble world where nobody laughs at you.

“Between the travel ban and the proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, that idea of exclusion is fueling the resistance to Trump and firing up liberals for this year’s midterms.”

Oh, wait. This was said in the real world. OK, then. HA!


32 posted on 04/25/2018 10:48:59 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: John W

It will be interesting to read the positions of Kennedy and Gorsuch, in addition to the positions of Roberts, Thomas, and Alito.


33 posted on 04/25/2018 10:49:11 AM PDT by Architect of Avalon
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To: robroys woman

“In a sane world with a non-politicized court, this would be a slam-dunk 9-0 decision.”

In a sane world, the courts would not be ruling at all. Since when does the executive need an up or down vote by the courts to exercise his constitutional authority under the Constitution?

When the courts can green light or red light every decision the executive makes, then the courts are in total control. No reason to have elections...


34 posted on 04/25/2018 10:53:08 AM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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To: John W

Exclusion and discrimination are good things to do contrary to what liberals spew.


35 posted on 04/25/2018 11:02:17 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: Hyman Roth

The problem is lower courts have second guessed the president so the SC has to step in and correct that. If they don’t, this question will be the beginning of the end of separation of powers. Courts will have supremacy.


36 posted on 04/25/2018 11:12:01 AM PDT by Gahanna Bob
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To: robroys woman

Quite so. But Democrats are desperate for votes.


37 posted on 04/25/2018 11:14:56 AM PDT by TheDon (MAGA!)
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To: Gahanna Bob

SCROTUS could slap down and vacate the lower courts unconstitutional rulings. They didn’t—They haven’t.


38 posted on 04/25/2018 11:17:10 AM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
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To: robroys woman

In a sane world circuit judges would not go poking their noses into what is clearly a Presidential prerogative.


39 posted on 04/25/2018 11:22:25 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Electric Graffiti; Gahanna Bob

And POTUS could and SHOULD reject and ignore unconstitutional SCROTUS rulings with notification of constitutional-based rationale for doing so. Trump doesn’t get that yet.


40 posted on 04/25/2018 11:24:41 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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