Trump's Latest Travel Ban Could Be the Toughest to Challenge
Earlier iterations of the executive order were rushed and unpolished. But the third version could very well pass the Supreme Court’s test.
Like grinning pumpkins left too long in the rain, the president’s first two travel bans are collapsing into a soggy mess.
That collapse is being portrayed as a victory for the administration, but it is not. The ban and the government’s inept efforts to defend it have permanently damaged this administration’s legal credibility.
In a brief this week, the Supreme Court vacated a decision from the Fourth Circuit that struck down the ban on immigrant and non-immigrant admissions, leaving nothing for it to decide. A provision of President Trump’s executive order temporarily suspending entry had “expired by its own terms” on September 24, the announcement said. Thus, the case challenging it, filed in Maryland, is “moot”—meaning time
