President Trump's Tweets Today Are To A Greater Extent Than Bear Witness The Locomote Ban Is Based Inward Animus

The Fourth Circuit's recent ruling that the revised locomote ban is probable unconstitutional rests on an declaration most motive.  As the courtroom concluded, the President's motive inwards issuing his companionship banning locomote from half dozen Muslim-majority countries is unquestionably based on "animus."  And equally a affair of constitutional law, the President can't deliberately try to target together with impairment (and exclude) Muslims.  Indeed, prejudice can never be a rational footing for law, together with inwards our organisation rationality is the most basic requirement for a constabulary to survive legitimate.  The President's animus-laden motive taints the ban together with violates the Establishment, Free Exercise, together with Equal Protection Clauses.

Today the President helped those of us who debate the ban is rooted inwards unconstitutional animus brand our case.

In 1 tweet he admitted that the motive behind the kickoff version of the locomote ban was non "politically correct," criticizing his Attorney General for convincing him to rewrite the policy.  This seems to concede that the kickoff ban targeted Islam, an plainly impermissible motive.  It is clear that past times non "politically correct," the President is referring to targeting a disfavored religion, non targeting half dozen (or seven) nations.  No 1 thinks that targeting countries that posed an actual threat would be politically incorrect.

In his tweets today, President Trump also admitted that the 2 bans are essentially the same policy amongst dissimilar words. Dismissing his attorneys' ain arguments in court, he wrote: "People the lawyers, together with Courts tin telephone telephone it whatever they want."
  

This is a serious blow to his case.  If the kickoff locomote ban is non "politically correct," pregnant it targets Muslims, together with the mo locomote ban is motivated past times just the same goals (even though his lawyers tin "call it what they want"), that way the mo version of the locomote ban is too animus-based together with unconstitutional.  These tweets resolve whatever uncertainty that President Trump's motive for the mo ban is just the same (and just equally unconstitutional) equally his motive for the kickoff one.
  

In short, the President had admitted that he never changed his master copy bad motive.  Instead, he alone asked (or allowed) his lawyers to mask it, a conclusion that he forthwith appears to regret.  The President confirms that as Rudy Guiliani told us early on, his lawyers were asked to brand "it," pregnant the Muslim ban, "legal."  Thanks inwards purpose to the President's ain recent tweets, the illustration for final that "it" is illegal has forthwith larn overwhelming.

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