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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's own Attorneys flat-out conceded in court - They don't know how to justify his Muslim ban
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Trump's own Attorneys flat-out conceded in court - They don't know how to justify his Muslim ban (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2017
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Hoyt
(54,770 posts)1. There are no rationalizations beyond ignorance, callousness and bigotry.
mnhtnbb
(31,316 posts)3. Also incompetence and wilful maliciousness.
this is a good discussion of the legal issues and how
the document was not reviewed by DHS, the Justice Department, the State Department, or the Department of Defense, and that National Security Council lawyers were prevented from evaluating it. Moreover, the New York Times writes that Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services, the agencies tasked with carrying out the policy, were only given a briefing call while Trump was actually signing the order itself.
https://lawfareblog.com/malevolence-tempered-incompetence-trumps-horrifying-executive-order-refugees-and-visas
Jimbo101
(776 posts)2. if I had one word - Wow
malthaussen
(17,065 posts)4. In other words, he didn't tell anybody shit.
Blindsiding your own enforcement apparatus is not a good way to go.
I get the feeling he is in haste to sign all these XOs so he can seem to be keeping his promises and get back to watching TV. Or maybe to get all this stuff out there before he loses his job.
-- Mal