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Gallup Poll Says Just 29% of Americans Think Trump is Respected by World Leaders

You obviously know a lot about engineering but the law? Not so much.

The 9th Circuit's decision sets precedent only if the Supreme Court affirms it or refuses to hear an appeal.

The Supreme Court has reversed 86% of the 9th Circuit's decisions brought before it. That is a staggering demonstration of malfeasance on the part of those loony liberal judges. It is unethical for judges to allow provocation to influence their decisions, but that's Old Hat for the 9th Circus.

The SC will hear an appeal if for no other reason that there is a conflicting opinion from a MA judge.

Even the "liberal" justices on the SC can't be so politically motivated as allow States' Attorneys Generals to trump the president on matters of immigration and national security

If they are, God help us as we will be headed towards a breakup of the union.

(And, preemptively, please stow you nonsense about such talk being treasonous)

Throwing in that I'm a wmwcjr fan of long standing. Of course we disagree on this and that, but it doesn't change my respect.

As I've noted before, there are almost no humorists, present or past, who have been conservatives. It's a near total absence. This severe disparity in letters, in political commentary, in comedy tells us, I think, something very important which no one I know of has adequately explained.

One of the many problems with the American left, and indeed of the American left, has been its image and self-image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.

How many times, in my old days at The Nation magazine, did I hear wistful and semienvious ruminations? Where was the radical Firing Line show? Who will be our Rush Limbaugh?

I used privately to hope that the emphasis, if the comrades ever got around to it, would be on the first of those and not the second. But the meetings themselves were so mind-numbing and lugubrious that I thought the danger of success on either front was infinitely slight.

President Donald Trump can’t stop—won’t stop—talking about the election.

On Thursday, during a meeting with 10 senators that was billed as a listening session about Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, the president went off on a familiar tangent, suggesting again that he was a victim of widespread voter fraud despite the fact that he won the presidential election.

...As soon as the door closed and the reporters allowed to observe for a few minutes had been ushered out, Trump began to talk about the election, participants said, triggered by the presence of former New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, who lost her reelection bid in November and is now working for Trump as a Capitol Hill liaison, or “Sherpa,” on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch.

The president claimed that he and Ayotte both would have been victorious in the Granite State if not for the “thousands” people who were “brought in on buses” from neighboring Massachusetts to “illegally” vote in New Hampshire.

It doesn’t matter, by the way, whether the Muslims in question are citizens or noncitizens, green card holders, visa holders or refugees. The Equal Protection Clause explicitly prohibits “deny[ing] to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” The Supreme Court made this clear in Plyler v. Doe, when it protected the rights of non-citizen children in Texas, striking down a denial of school funds to the children of undocumented parents. This means that all foreign travelers on U.S. soil—those waiting at U.S. airports, for example—are protected.

More than that, I’d argue that even Muslims not on U.S. soil are protected. Recent case law suggests that no act by a government official—no matter to whom it applies—can be based on disapproval of a race, ethnicity or religion. In other words, when it comes to Equal Protection, it’s the motive of the government and its agents that matters. If a government official seeks to carry out Trump’s order and bar entry into the country, that is a violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States.

This means that all foreign travelers on U.S. soil—those waiting at U.S. airports, for example—are protected.