An Encouraging First Victory Over Trumpery

Thursday’s ruling from three judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld a freeze on the Trump Administration’s anti-Muslim travel ban, was obviously a significant legal setback for the White House. My colleague Amy Davidson explained how the judges dismissed practically every argument that the Justice Department had presented to them. The ruling’s biggest repercussion for Trump, however, might be a political one. On just his twenty-first day in office, three very senior federal judges, one of them a Republican appointee, issued a stunning smackdown of his divisive and dangerous approach to governing.

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