ON THE eve of the Iowa caucuses in January 2016, following a string of controversial statements, Donald Trump marvelled at his political resilience. "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody”, he said, “and I wouldn't lose voters". But the president’s preternatural ability to shed fallout from his own words may have its limits. A series of tweets on the morning of June 5th could doom his March 6th executive order banning travel from several Muslim countries, scuttling one of his central campaign promises.
How could a few tweets undermine the president’s policy? By supplying fresh evidence of the very points the order’s detractors have been citing in court. Mr Trump’s advocates—highly skilled, hard-working lawyers at the Department of Justice—have been striving to explain to federal judges across the land why the president’s unprecedented effort to ban travel from six Muslim-majority nations is not the so-called Muslim ban he called for in December 2015, or even a “ban” at...Continue reading
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