Travel Ban USSC

So the final arguments were heard on the Trump travel ban (which is currently in effect due to the USSC earlier stay). A decision is supposedly due early this summer. By all accounts it was a good day for the Administration and those supporters of the ban.

Obviously you can only pick up so much from the hearing, but many legal observers make a living out of making these sorts of predictions. From what I have read, there is an indication that support for upholding the ban could see as many as seven Justices, rather than just the expected five member conservative bloc. That being said, the majority of observers are expecting another five-four split (with liberals hoping for a defector to side with the liberals).

My favorite tweet of the day came from an obscure liberal who goes by C.F.

I think that probably sums it up for the left. They simply believe that the entire constitution and rule of law should be suspended while Trump is President. But the truth of the matter is that the President of the United States has the absolute right under both the Constitution and Federal law to enact a travel ban such as he did. Furthermore, there is nothing in either the Constitution or Federal law that suggests that the executive needs to run it by a "judge" before making his decision. The President has 17 intelligence agencies who answer to him and feed him national security information. Our court system is made up of Judges who don't have security clearance (much less the time) to second guess them.

Let's hope that at least one (or more) of the liberal bloc decides to side with the conservatives in order to make this a more consistent, credible, and non-partisan ruling. Assuming of course, that the vast majority of observers are correct and the ruling comes back in favor of the Administration.

UPDATE: It's probably worth noting that when the USSC issued their original stay of the lower court order (which allowed the ban to take effect) that only two Justices (Ginsburg and Sotomayor) dissented with the stay order. The other two liberals (Kagan and Breyer) appear to have left the door open to siding with the Administration based on the transcripts of today's oral arguments.