tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post2165243897855225691..comments2024-03-29T03:57:26.974-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: Legal, But Wise?Grimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-49943519102547631592017-01-30T13:28:28.000-05:002017-01-30T13:28:28.000-05:00Actually, that figure is right where you'd exp...Actually, that figure is right where you'd expect it to be given the election results. <i>Nearly half</i> supporting it means that <i>nearly half</i> oppose it: 48/42, right at the limits of their 3.3% margin of error.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-72792891733887116742017-01-30T12:34:01.065-05:002017-01-30T12:34:01.065-05:00The 'adequate public support' thing may be...<i>The 'adequate public support' thing may be a stumbling block, given the massive protests nationwide against it. </i><br /><br />The "massive protests nationwide" may be a media fabrication in light of this Quinnipiac <a href="http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/01/29/poll-nearly-half-america-voters-support-trumps-immigration-order" rel="nofollow"> poll</a>.<br /><br />EricE Hineshttp://aplebessite.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-46117571023189917152017-01-30T11:47:45.655-05:002017-01-30T11:47:45.655-05:00The 'adequate public support' thing may be...The 'adequate public support' thing may be a stumbling block, given the massive protests nationwide against it. But of course, there's just as big a faction aligned in favor of this policy as against it -- Trump ran on it openly, and won (if barely, and only in the Electoral College). <br /><br />My guess is that the supporting faction hated the Obama 'Refugees Welcome!' policy exactly as much as the opposing faction hates Trump's new policy. They're just not as inclined to staging protests. Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-30609296823299927242017-01-30T09:38:33.592-05:002017-01-30T09:38:33.592-05:00The take I read on the green-card issue this morni...The take I read on the green-card issue this morning was that holders of green cards are subject to the ban, but in reviewing exceptions to the ban, green-card status will be dispositive in the absence of compelling evidence of dangerous associations or activities. I can personally live with a blanket green-card exception, but I can also live with a green-card ban coupled with a nearly blanket green-card exception, as long as it's implemented quickly and fairly transparently. The idea that the U.S. doesn't have the right to do these things strikes me as lunacy. The only controversy should be over whether an approach has adequate public support and is workable enough not to stink of banana-republic paralysis and corruption.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-63386023719689858802017-01-29T21:33:08.878-05:002017-01-29T21:33:08.878-05:00OK, he's a lawyer if not an immigration lawyer...OK, he's a lawyer if not an immigration lawyer, and I am no lawyer of any kind. However, he's still wrong on the merits of the question. One needs to be a lawyer less than a student of history to see why.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-12391924728435599882017-01-29T21:20:10.313-05:002017-01-29T21:20:10.313-05:00There never was a green card ban. That's just...There never was a green card ban. That's just another of the NLMSM's distortions. Kelly's phrasing was necessary only because it'll be hard to distort that.<br /><br />Eric HinesE Hineshttp://aplebessite.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-73320643430331723412017-01-29T21:03:11.925-05:002017-01-29T21:03:11.925-05:00Patterico is Patrick Frey, Deputy District Attorne...Patterico is Patrick Frey, Deputy District Attorney in the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. <br /><br />http://members.calbar.ca.gov/fal/Member/Detail/169227<br /><br />I think his line "I am not an immigration lawyer and do not claim any expertise in this area, but I’m capable of reading a statute and a legal argument" is better read as "I am a lawyer but immigration law is not my specialty".Douglas2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-33482110941917923542017-01-29T20:38:45.768-05:002017-01-29T20:38:45.768-05:00That piece you cite -- which is here, if anyone el...That piece you cite -- which is <a href="http://patterico.com/2017/01/29/responding-to-andrew-mccarthy-on-the-legality-of-trumps-immigration-order/" rel="nofollow">here</a>, if anyone else wants to look at it -- is just wrong. The author admits he is not a lawyer or an expert, but is convinced that Congress and not the President has authority here. In addition to the fact that FDR's EO shows that courts have accepted Presidential authority in the past, though, the fact is that it isn't especially plausible to think that Congress should initiate major foreign policy decisions relating to whole countries. The President alone can recognize a foreign government as legitimate or not (Truman and Israel, for example). The President enters into treaties with the 'advice and consent' of the Senate, but it's an Article II power, not an Article I power.<br /><br />So I don't buy the refutation.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-85178873047297430862017-01-29T20:04:22.809-05:002017-01-29T20:04:22.809-05:00RedState links to an essay from Patterico which pu...RedState links to an essay from Patterico which purports to demonstrate that McCarthy is wrong on the law.<br /><br />Patterico did not remind us of the quote that 'the law is an ass.'Dad29https://www.blogger.com/profile/08554276286736923821noreply@blogger.com