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The Travel Ban Stands and the Legacy of the Roberts Court

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4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Weisberg talks to Emily Bazelon about SCOTUS and its decision on Trump's travel ban. Plus, what are we to make of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

So the good news is that we still have a Supreme Court that they still have so many decisions.

0:04.7

The count is good news.

0:07.0

Other countries it's called, I'm sorry, you can't come in, you have to leave.

0:11.6

Today we are seeing the rule of law eroded in the sense that he's celebrating this as a

0:16.5

personal political victory. This is an epic level of trolling from Senator Majority Leader McConnell here.

0:22.5

As long as he puts a very thin veneer of national security on top of all that

0:27.6

discrimination and racism, they will buy it.

0:33.6

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, the show about the man who says,

0:37.9

if it's not your hair, don't run for office. Donald Trump.

0:42.5

He claims his unfaic hair has been tested in winds of up to 60 miles per hour.

0:48.0

I'm Jacob Oysterberg. So in recent days it's been difficult to maintain a sense of proportion

0:54.1

about Donald Trump's abuses. In human terms, separating 2500 children from their families,

1:00.4

using them as a bargaining chip, and then being unwilling or unable to reunite most of them with

1:05.8

their families is easily the most abhorrent thing he's done. This is a policy so vicious that even

1:12.1

the president recognized that it was unsustainable. It's one of a very few times he's ever back down.

1:18.7

Ripping migrant children from their parents is a violation of human rights and human decency,

1:23.8

so extreme that it degrades all of us as Americans.

1:27.6

So I don't want to take my eye off that ball by getting all excited about whether

1:31.0

Sarah Huckabee Sanders should have been allowed to have dessert at the little red hen

1:35.6

or about defending Harley Davidson, a company that you might think would be highly aligned with

1:40.2

Donald Trump. Compared to forced family separations, those things are trivial, although Trump's

1:46.5

easy to win trade war does stand to destroy thousands of jobs at Harley Davidson and elsewhere.

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