{"id":178983,"date":"2018-06-26T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/26\/partisan-hacks\/"},"modified":"2018-06-26T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T01:01:00","slug":"partisan-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/26\/partisan-hacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Partisan Hacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/26\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-trump-travel-ban.html\">ruled that Trumps Muslim ban was just fine<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>I thought that <i>Bush v Gore <\/i>was the worst Supreme Court ruling of my life.&nbsp; I was misinformed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/17pdf\/17-965_h315.pdf\">upheld President Trump\u2019s ban<\/a> on travel from several predominantly Muslim countries, delivering to the president on Tuesday a political victory and an endorsement of his power to control immigration at a time of political upheaval about the treatment of migrants at the Mexican border.<\/p>\n<p>In a 5-to-4 vote, the court\u2019s conservatives said that the president\u2019s power to secure the country\u2019s borders, delegated by Congress over decades of immigration lawmaking, was not undermined by Mr. Trump\u2019s history of incendiary statements about the dangers he said Muslims pose to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said that Mr. Trump had ample statutory authority to make national security judgments in the realm of immigration. And the chief justice rejected a constitutional challenge to Mr. Trump\u2019s third executive order on the matter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/24\/us\/politics\/new-order-bars-almost-all-travel-from-seven-countries.html\">issued in September as a proclamation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The court\u2019s liberals denounced the decision. In a passionate and searing dissent from the bench, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the decision was no better than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/supremecourt\/text\/323\/214\">Korematsu v. United States<\/a>, the 1944 decision that endorsed the detention of Japanese-Americans during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>She praised the court for officially overturning Korematsu in its decision on Tuesday. But by upholding the travel ban, Justice Sotomayor said, the court \u201cmerely replaces one gravely wrong decision with another.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously.&nbsp; This isn&#8217;t a difference in ideology, this is lack of basic humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision ruled that Trumps Muslim ban was just fine. I thought that Bush v Gore was the worst Supreme Court ruling of my life.&nbsp; I was misinformed: The Supreme Court upheld President Trump\u2019s ban on travel from several predominantly Muslim countries, delivering to the president on Tuesday a political &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[413,368,364,407,374],"class_list":["post-178983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-civil-rights","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-justice","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}