06-27-2018, 11:15 AM
(06-27-2018, 11:08 AM)michaelsean Wrote: So you are taking his word on this one? Personally I don't believe much of what the guy says, but apparently you take him at his word. No matter what he said it would be, the facts say it is not a Muslim ban.
This gets into the argument that was before the court. Can what Trump said be used to identify (unlawful) discriminatory intent within the policy, even if it was not written with that explicitly included. It's not so much about taking him at his word; I don't think any of the Justices doubted Trump's word or most of us on here for that matter. The decision is whether or not Trump's word really matters if the policy is facially neutral. The answer they came to was no.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
