SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!
https://twitter.com/ProduKtJRG/status/829839180897406977?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet
@realDonaldTrump you have over 3000 pending lawsuits. Everyone has seen you in court.
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/829846842150096896
I’m no Hillary fan, but brutal.
Here’s the full decision:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3457898/2-9-17-9th-Circuit-Order.pdfHere’s an important bit from it:
The States argue that the Executive Order violates the Establishment and Equal Protection Clauses because it was intended to disfavor Muslims. In support of this argument, the States have offered evidence of numerous statements by the President about his intent to implement a “Muslim ban” as well as evidence they claim suggests that the Executive Order was intended to be that ban, including sections 5(b) and 5(e) of the Order. It is well established that evidence of purpose beyond the face of the challenged law may be considered in evaluating Establishment and Equal Protection Clause claims.
Of course what is overlooked is the fact that the list was created during and by the Obama administration. I am not in favor of a Muslim Ban. I do think our vetting system is broken when it comes to obtaining real information for the investigations they use for vetting.
Creating a list of countries to keep an eye on because they are of greater risk than others for terrorist threats and taking steps towards creating a ban against people from predominantly Muslim countries are two very different things.
Something else not accounted for. The FBI has already stated publicly that large numbers of these refugees aren’t even native to said countries on the list they say they come from so they cannot get the proper information to clear them via the process.
That’s exactly what the Obama-era bills did: applied greater scrutiny to visas and travelers to and from the seven countries named, whether they were from that country or not, whether they were from a country with a visa waiver or not (so someone from the US or Canada traveling to Syria or Yemen would be watched more closely upon trying to enter the US). It didn’t try to ban people outright based on their citizenship (or perhaps religion, if taken far enough) like Trump’s Executive Order would.