Trump Calls For Moratorium on Muslim Immigrants

[TheRealJoeFish]

This is exactly the kind of thing which gives me the impression (as I stated in another thread) that Trump has a personal agenda for running and it isn't to win the presidency. Anyone who is even the tiniest bit familiar with the American constitution and system of government knows that his proposal is just shy of utterly impossible. Why propose something that you know is a non-starter? Not only the Democrats but 90% of Republicans would reject this. And if by some minor miracle it were to pass and become law, SCOTUS would shoot it down 9-0. Even Scalia and Thomas aren't this crackers. So why bring it up?

Congress can exempt laws from judicial review.

Technically this is correct to some extent, but no one has any idea to what extent.

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It's been long agreed by just about everyone who's thought deeply about it (I know that's a total BS appeal to authority but I believe it's true) that one of the absolute worst things the government can do is get into the business of deciding whether someone's professed religious beliefs are sincere.  In order to ban muslims from entering the US, a determination about the sincerity of personal convictions would have to be made.

That way madness lies.