Powerline: "The 4th Circuit's travel ban decision: an affront to the rule of law." "For a court to say that a presidential order may or may not be constitutional depending on who the president is–constitutional if issued by a Democrat, unconstitutional if by a Republican–is the ultimate repudiation of the rule of law."
Extra - Byron York: "The majority's decision, as laid out by Gregory, suggests a mind-bending possibility: If the Trump executive order, every single word of it, were issued by another president who had not made such statements on the campaign trail, the court would find it constitutional."
The best part of the second article is the appearance by America's old friend John Yoo. Yoo is unhappy to see partisan preference extralegally elevated above a straightforward textual reading of the law, as well as long-settled conventions.
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