..BREAKING...Supremes allow Travel Ban...DAMN!!!!

[Softail1]

..shame on those Supremes...

https://news.google.com/news/headlines?hl=en&ned=us

[Sugarcoated]

1. Damn

just...damn. Those "Suprmes". Damn.

[FarPoint]

2. No surprise....

Republicans own the Supreme Court....we do not have a balance of powers...

[ck4829]

3. Making way for the weak national security strategy

Ahh, there's a mass shooter but he didn't say "Allahu Ackbar", so it's clearly not that bad... just a mass murder.

(And yes, I've actually been told it's "*just* a mass murder" word for word)

[Ms. Toad]

4. Not exactly what happened.

Always read legal analysis by lay people - and especially headlines - with a grain of salt.

The course is still winding its way through the system. A lower court blocked the ban while it was being reviewed. The Supreme Court lifted the temporary lower court block.

It is not a direct review of the merits of the travel ban by the Supreme Court (although an injunction does embed in its analysis a likelihood of success on the merits test).

[Softail1]

5. ..never said it was decided on the merits..

...just pissed that while the lower courts go thru the motions...the ban IS now allowed to take place...and looks like it was a 7-2 decision to lift the injunction...doesn't look good for sure...

[Kingofalldems]

8. Interesting.

[Ms. Toad]

9. "Allow travel ban" is a bit different from lifting an injunction on the travel ban.

And even if you understood the distinction (and were using shorthand), the majority of DU woudl read your headlilne as a decision on the merits.

[Softail1]

13. Ok, I see how it might br taken the wrong way

technically you are right, they are lifting the injunction, which has the effect of allowing the travel ban to happen..although it is supposed to be temporary until lower courts rule, it seems that a 7-2 dec. to lift the inj. indicates that the court is inclined to fully allow it when/if they have to rule on the merits...ughhhh!!!!!

[Ms. Toad]

14. There's just way too much crazy legal stuff going on

And a lot of misinterpretation - largely driven by inaccurate media headlines.

There were quite a few breathless, "Trump due in court Tuesday," threads yesterday - in regard to a motion hearing. This seemed like another of those.

It's hard to predict how they'll ultimately rule - but the likely to prevail on the merits is part of the standard for issuing an injunction which, by overruling it, the Supremes impliedly rejected.

[Cattledog]

6. It's a temporary order until lower courts rule.

[TeamPooka]

7. And thats why Republicans stole that Scotus seat from Obama and Garland

So they can do anything they want

[LenaBaby61]

10. And thats why Republicans stole that Scotus seat from Obama and Garland.

And you can see where this is all going.

Getting rid of Roe v Wade.
Getting rid of Unions.
Getting rid of Civil Rights Legislation.
Getting rid completely of laws protecting us from police over reach.
Getting rid of fill in the blank______________________ that's there to protect those with NO voice and NO power.

We're fucked for a generation and MORE, because fatso's filling these courts with unqualified, RWNJ and flat out racist judges for a LIFETIME.

[MichMan]

12. It was a 7-2 decision

Are you really calling Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagen racist and unqualified ?

[uponit7771]

11. Looks temporary but yeah, sucks