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A lawyer friend said that if the EO wasn't written so poorly, it would be a lot harder to challenge in court.
I am not a lawyer so I don't know the details but that's what he said.
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I'm not a lawyer, but that seemed apparent to me from the beginning.  The POTUS has fairly broad powers to implement the authority given to the Executive Branch around immigration.  They could have done a lot within that authority (Obama did, though he also overstepped in a few cases).  They chose to go so far outside that authority it precipitated ad hoc protests around the country overnight.  You can blame those protests on liberal hysteria if you want, but a lot of the people protesting were not hysterical liberals.  They managed both to violate laws and to stick a needle in the eye of people who could even be cautious allies or at least "look the other way"-ers (like Big Tech).  That's just dumb.

And then they started bragging about protecting Christians and conflating the EO with Trump's "muslim ban" promise...bolstering a First Amendment challenge that might otherwise have been harder to mount.  Dumb is too generous a word for that.[/quote]

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