(January 30, 2017 at 2:04 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Tiberius,
Thanks for the update. There is a provision in the EO, Section 5(e), that allows entry for people who were already in transit and denying them admission would cause undue hardship. That gave the Judge an out for ruling the way she did.
The problem is that Trump's writers wrote the thing like the Second Amendment (in mud) without specifying all of the fine points. And he was in such a hurry that he didn't have the people charged with carrying it out proofread it and correct the flaws.
If Trump doesn't have some honest critics to review his actions his yes men & women will get his ass burned off. It's like the dummy who misspelled the British PM's name twice on official correspondence. Details matter.
The problem I have is that it should have been explicit from the start with regards to lawful permanent residents. Even with the provision you noted, the Trump administration has flip flopped multiple times on whether the EO applied to green card holders. For instance, during the chaos at airports with legal US residents being denied entry to their home, Trump himself said the EO was "working out very nicely". The DHS originally said on Friday that it wouldn't affect permanent residents, but the white house overruled them and said that it would, and green card holders would be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Then, finally, on Sunday the Secretary of the DHS declared that the order wouldn't apply to green card holders.
By the way, I don't buy the excuse that Trump didn't have the people to proofread the EO. The LA Times managed to get a draft of the order several days before it was signed: http://documents.latimes.com/read-draft-...-refugees/
That means it was being worked on for days, weeks maybe before Trump came into power.
