The travel ban drama was a great case study in just how willing the judicial Resistance was to break norms in aid of thwarting Trump. The problem wasn’t that the courts had come up with flawed opinions. The problem was that they’d ignored all the usual safeguards that are meant to protect against frivolous lawsuits and flawed opinions. And it wasn’t just one or two judges indulging in occasional reckless behavior. Dozens of judges and significant numbers of appeals courts began routinely trashing basic judicial norms. The practice has become so overt that the Supreme Court has on occasion felt
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