The courts are not going to save us from Donald Trump

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Tuesday's decision is likely to embolden Trump even further.

IAN MILLHISER JUN 26, 2018, 11:54 AM

Chief Justice John Roberts is either a very stupid man, or he believes that the rest of us are very stupid.

In the first paragraph of Roberts’ opinion in Trump v. Hawaii, handed down on Tuesday, the Chief writes one of the most literally unbelievable lines to appear in a Supreme Court opinion: “the President concluded that it was necessary to impose entry restrictions on nationals of countries that do not share adequate information for an informed entry determination, or that otherwise present national security risks.”

If you believe that, you probably also believed President Donald Trump when he claimed that he’d replace Obamacare with “something terrific.” If you believe that, you probably slept through the entire 2016 presidential campaign.

For any of you who stopped paying attention in 2015, Trump repeatedly promised to ban Muslims from entering the country while he was a candidate for the presidency. Roberts’ 5-4 opinion in Trump acknowledges as much — it quotes Trump’s statement calling for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”

https://thinkprogress.org/supreme-court-uphold-muslim-ban-ec069fe33609/

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1. That''s why Mitch has been helping him

Stack the courts with their loyalist judges,, so they can be above the rule of law.

[Solly Mack]

2. When he runs out of people he wants to bar from the outside

He'll turn his eye to the rest of us on the inside.

He has already mentioned how people who kneel should be tossed out.

He'll ramp up the hate against the rest of us.

And Trump is not above attempting to follow through.