DEVASTATING loss for Trump....Appeals court UNANIMOUSLY strikes down the Muslim Ban

Pookie Jones wrote:

It's not been a good week for The Don!

It's about time gworl friend. mhm

DemoKKKrat here wrote:

The Republicans abolished slavery and created the 14th, 15th, and 16th Amendments that is what happened to them.

Lincoln was a Republican in party only. Republicans are still trying to undo his actions because they are too Democratic.

DemoKKKrat here wrote:

My last Grand Wizard Senator Bird (D) RIP begs to differ. We demoKKKrats are the party of hate & bigotry we are the KKK.

A Dem Senator was yours? LOL....

You current Grand Wizard in named Jeff Sessions. You should be well aware of this.

Honest Abe L wrote:

DemoKKKrat here wrote:

The Republicans abolished slavery and created the 14th, 15th, and 16th Amendments that is what happened to them.

Lincoln was a Republican in party only. Republicans are still trying to undo his actions because they are too Democratic.

No.

DemoKKKrat here wrote:

thinker wrote:

True. But of course in those days the Democrats were rural, southern, conservative, and "small gov't" while the Republicans were urban, northern, progressive, and wanted Federal rule. But the parties witched platforms (as evidenced by Strom Thurmond and the Dixiecrats) during the Civil Rights era.

http://www.livescience.com/34241-democratic-republican-parties-switch-platforms.html

My last Grand Wizard Senator Bird (D) RIP begs to differ. We demoKKKrats are the party of hate & bigotry we are the KKK.

Read some history books (instead of talking points) for god's sake. Byrd stayed with the Democrats because he underwent a major change to his politics in the 1960s. In the decades following his opposition to the Civil Rights Bill he completely jettisoned his racist politics and remade himself into a staunch supporter of African-American rights. At the time of his death he counted Civil Rights icons like John Lewis among his supporters and he died with a 100% approval rating from the NAACP. Byrd, unlike many of the segregationists who joined the Republican Party, was always willing and eager to apologize for his racist past.

thinker wrote:

DemoKKKrat here wrote:

My last Grand Wizard Senator Bird (D) RIP begs to differ. We demoKKKrats are the party of hate & bigotry we are the KKK.

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Read some history books (instead of talking points) for god's sake. Byrd stayed with the Democrats because he underwent a major change to his politics in the 1960s. In the decades following his opposition to the Civil Rights Bill he completely jettisoned his racist politics and remade himself into a staunch supporter of African-American rights. At the time of his death he counted Civil Rights icons like John Lewis among his supporters and he died with a 100% approval rating from the NAACP. Byrd, unlike many of the segregationists who joined the Republican Party, was always willing and eager to apologize for his racist past.

In the early 1940s, Byrd recruited 150 of his friends and associates to create a new chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Sophia, West Virginia.[10][11]

According to Byrd, a Klan official told him, "You have a talent for leadership, Bob ... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd later recalled, "Suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did."[17] Byrd became a recruiter and leader of his chapter.[11] When it came time to elect the top officer (Exalted Cyclops) in the local Klan unit, Byrd won unanimously.[11]

I was the longest serving Senator in U.S. History a DemoKKKrat and a racist bigot leader of the KKK.

You learned to spell his named correctly, but have not disproved my statement. Byrd, George Wallace, and others changed their views and stayed with the Dem's. Those who did not change their views (Strom Thurmond, for example) switched parties. One only needs to examine the issues of the time through a "state rights" lens to see the parties switch, or simply look at the 1924 electoral map.

Try your best to start using the upper, frontal portion of your brain, you're probably capable of better than spewing drivel.

thinker wrote:

You learned to spell his named correctly, but have not disproved my statement. Byrd, George Wallace, and others changed their views and stayed with the Dem's. Those who did not change their views (Strom Thurmond, for example) switched parties. One only needs to examine the issues of the time through a "state rights" lens to see the parties switch, or simply look at the 1924 electoral map.

Try your best to start using the upper, frontal portion of your brain, you're probably capable of better than spewing drivel.

I was the gran cyclops who recruited for the KKK. Thank you very much.

Life long DemoKKKrat,

-C. Byrd

Ghost of Senator Byrd wrote:

thinker wrote:

You learned to spell his named correctly, but have not disproved my statement. Byrd, George Wallace, and others changed their views and stayed with the Dem's. Those who did not change their views (Strom Thurmond, for example) switched parties. One only needs to examine the issues of the time through a "state rights" lens to see the parties switch, or simply look at the 1924 electoral map.

Try your best to start using the upper, frontal portion of your brain, you're probably capable of better than spewing drivel.

I was the gran cyclops who recruited for the KKK. Thank you very much.

Life long DemoKKKrat,

-C. Byrd

You went wayward on us, Byrd. We had such high hopes for you but you abandoned our Aryan Dream. We hated you for that. Bigly hated.

Frederick "Christ" Trump.

DemoKKKrat here wrote:

My last Grand Wizard Senator Bird (D) RIP begs to differ. We demoKKKrats are the party of hate & bigotry we are the KKK.

Do you think the fact that the leader of the KKK is a gleeful Trump supporter hurts the point you're trying to make at all?

Trump is going to win this no matter what. The refugee ban is really popular in the states that put him into office. If the executive order is struck down by the SCOTUS he will claim he did what the people wanted and he's the only one with the will to keep the country safe. If the executive order is upheld he will claim victory. The Democrats understand this and it must be (understandably) super frustrating to them.

I am just really upset with the politicalization of everything in this country. Liberal activist courts undermine GOP presidents while Conservative activist courts undermine Democratic presidents. Also, the 9th circuit court has had a TON of decisions reversed by the SCOTUS recently. The Democrats' base is so furious that Trump won that the Democrats are now out-doing the Republicans on obstructionism. This country is a goddamn disaster and it wouldn't have been any better if Hillary won.

I think the executive order is pointless and sacrifices freedom for security. The Trump administration's biggest problem wasn't having a real lawyer write the order and communicating with Congress, the DHS, etc. Stephen Miller needs to be fired.

The most fascinating thing about the Trump is he's in the position to do things that are unimaginable for other politicians in America. It's quite the spectacle.

Derp Nation wrote:

DemoKKKrat here wrote:

My last Grand Wizard Senator Bird (D) RIP begs to differ. We demoKKKrats are the party of hate & bigotry we are the KKK.

Do you think the fact that the leader of the KKK is a gleeful Trump supporter hurts the point you're trying to make at all?

Or that minorities make up 40% of the Democratic Party and just 11% of the Republican Party.

Trump is President.

Donald doesn't care what those crackpot judges think.

jamin wrote:

Donald doesn't care what those crackpot judges think.

That's "PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP, The Most Eminent of Them All" to you, you disrespectful little sh*t.

Pookie Jones wrote:

It's not been a good week for The Don!

So, does Trump go home devastated?

The problem is not so much with this particular meaningless EO. The problems will start when something more serious happens – such as another terrorist attack on the US. Can you imagine the outcry of the country and the subsequent fallout on the Judiciary? It is guaranteed they will be portrayed as having “allowed this mayhem” to happen. It will put Trump in a perfect position to launch an all-out attack on the whole judicial system.

In fact, I am not all that sure that this whole thing isn’t just positioning by Trump in preparing for the inevitable. When a terrorist action happens, he’s politically clean and strategically empowered to make things a lot more unpleasant for a lot of people.

As with the 9/11 attacks, the damage done by the hijackers was not so much the lost lives and the destroyed buildings, it was the reaction of the country to those attacks. We paid for that overreaction with two incredibly expensive and pointless wars, the Patriot Act, the intrusive surveillance, and other fundamental and permanent changes to the way we live our everyday lives.

Most of that overreaction has been immeasurably more damaging than the attacks themselves. By ignoring the Constitution, by utterly dismissing statute 8 U.S.C. § 1182(f), by responding to Trump in this irrational manner, devoid of all consideration of the possible long-term consequences, we are dooming the country to repeating exactly the same mistakes.

FAKE NEWS: Not a Muslim Ban.

requiem for democracy wrote:

DiscoGary wrote:

This is a separation of powers issue. We are governed by our elected officials.

It's a lot worse than that. This is a judicial coup d'etat.

The principal problem IMO is this "3 co-equal branches" gibberish. The Constitution clearly puts Congress, as most responsive to the people (and the House moreso than the Senate) at the top of the heap. E.g., it can restrict the court's jurisdiction (though it's unlikely the courts themselves would accept that w/o a fight).