I’ve said before that I’ve given up on covering every little thing Trump does. It’s wearying, and it doesn’t really affect the big picture. Then again, each incident does have some small effect, perhaps cumulative. And some of the incidents … Continue reading →
District Judge Derrick Watson of Hawaii has been in the news quite a bit lately. You may recall that he was one of several judges who issued orders in separate but similar cases to block Trump’s revised EO regarding travel … Continue reading →
I don’t recall that in my youth people spoke all that much about a president’s “legacy.” In recent decades it’s been all the rage, though, and that legacy usually gets evaluated and re-evaluated while a person is president, and not … Continue reading →
Or perhaps a new series of EOs: “On background: to clarify, we could take the TRO to Supreme Court,” the statement read, referring to the lower court’s temporary restraining order against Trump’s travel ban. “We are reviewing all our options … Continue reading →
From John Hinderaker at Powerline on what might come next in the EO battle: …[T]he administration might go straight to the Supreme Court. But bear in mind that all the 9th Circuit has done is to deny a motion for … Continue reading →
UPDATE 11:59 Reading this analysis of the 9th Circuit decision by Patterico at Red State, I’ve concluded that he’s saying that the ruling went the way it did mainly because the judges felt that the original EO included green card … Continue reading →
I’ve said before that Trump and his advisors should have ironed out a lot of things and clarified them before releasing his immigration executive order. Sloppiness is wrong on two scores: it leads to bad outcomes for many people, and … Continue reading →
It’s not quite two weeks into the Trump administration and already I’m weary of a repetitive pattern: Trump says or does A, the MSM and the opposition responds B, and those of us who purport to write about these things … Continue reading →
President Trump has proposed a temporary suspension of immigration from seven countries and some new rules for the admission of immigrants to the US: Donald Trump has outlined a new screening process for would-be immigrants designed to exclude Islamic extremists … Continue reading →
Peggy Noonan’s been on a roll lately, and this column of hers about quarantine is especially fine. I recall similar stories to the one she tells, from my in-laws. My own parents had no immigration stories. My father virtually never … Continue reading →
Peggy Noonan drives me pretty crazy with her on-again-off-again insights. When she’s good, she’s very very good. But when she’s bad, she’s foggy. This is very good: A third component of public anxiety has to do with what normal people … Continue reading →
The Times reports he’s just “seething” with anger: Beneath the calming reassurance that President Obama has repeatedly offered during the Ebola crisis, there is a deepening frustration, even anger, with how the government has handled key elements of the response. … Continue reading →