“But Wall told the court they should ignore all of Trump’s statements promising a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” and only evaluate the text of the executive order itself.”
Yes–By all means we should completely ignore Trump’s publicly, loudly, and repeatedly demagoguing the issue for the past two years in favor of the text of a single document. 
How did this end up being heard en banc? Did someone petition to bypass a panel opinion or did I miss a panel opinion somewhere? Given that Obama turned it from one of the most conservative to one of the most liberal circuits (and the Fourth is “my” circuit, so it was damn welcome), going straight to en banc consideration does not help Trump.
Trump’s words and all his enablers’ words are killing them.
The words all signify INTENT, which is why they will keep losing.
“Well, that went well,” said Acting Solicitor General Jeffery Wall, to no one in particular.
But it also needs tto be noted that Trumps proclamation promising a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” was still posted on his campaign website until today when it was summarily taken down very shortly after an ABC correspondent brought it up during today’s White House Press Briefing. . . . Oops!
“This is not a Muslim ban,” said Acting Solicitor General Jeffery Wall.
What an appropriate name: Wall. Chiselin’ Trump probably handpicked him to argue this case for him.
Scrub-a-dub-dub
Website in a tub.
Niemeyer also questioned whether the plaintiffs separated from their families had really suffered a legal injury, considering that the ban is purportedly temporary.
This gets to something I’ve been wondering. If they needed 90 days to review current policies, why haven’t we heard about the results of the review yet? It can’t be that the review period was in bad faith, can it?? 
I was just about to post the same point. I wish TPM and other sources would start asking these questions.
If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and the President called it a duck, but it isn’t a duck, then what the duck is it?
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