“See you in court”
Stupid and impulsive. There are four votes on the Court to uphold this ruling - that every person in the world has due process rights in American courts over issuance of visas, the ability to sojurn in the US, and (next) the right to due process over green cards and (I’m certain) voting.
A 4-4 tie fixes this so-called opinion as Constitutional law.
Trump needed to consolidate his power base before doing this. The enemy battle plan is now clear - Trump, Bannon, Kushner, Conway against all the Democrats, most of the Republicans, and all of the Courts.
This is only a TRO. It goes back to the trial court - the government needs there to make it's case better. Then when the injunction is final, appeal and then take it to the Supreme Court.
By that time maybe even at McConnell's turtle pace we will have the 9th member of the Supreme Court.
The best thing would be for the Republicans to meet in continuous session until they get Gorsuch confirmed, hopefully in time that Trump can appeal this order.
No, it doesn't. An equally divided court treats ends the case, but is otherwise as if the Supreme Court never took the case. In this case, it means the ruling would apply only in the States within the Ninth Circuit.