Trump Loses Travel Ban Appeal

[Aristocatt]

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/...-1.2964205

This part of the argument may have pissed the court directly off:

Acting solicitor general Noel Francisco forcefully argued in the government’s brief on Saturday night that presidential authority is “largely immune from judicial control” when it comes to deciding who can enter or stay in the United States.

Not sure how it works in the US, but in Commonwealth nations judges get a wee bit livid when told that politicians are immune from judicial control.

Boru

For anyone that is interested, the official WH response can be found here
http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documen...-ban/2320/

It's also where the quote provided by the OP comes from.

The full quote is as follows: see page 12

In the immigration context specifically, " the Supreme Court has 'long recognized the power to expel or exclude aliens as a fundamental right sovereign attribute exercised by the Government's political departments largely immune from judicial control'"

Also I don't think Noel Francisco had ever even said that...It was a quote from Cardenas vs United States.
https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/o...-35957.pdf
See section II. A on page 8


I hope that we can win the legal battle and not have to deal with this absurd ban, but I don't think claiming Trump thinks he is above the law is a winning battle here.