Re: Rethinking the 1st & 2nd Ammendments
Address the obvious--your president called it a Muslim Ban before he tried saying it wasn't a Muslim Ban.
One would think that the most obvious aspect of Donald Trump's commentary is that he has shown himself to be an unmatched bombastic flip-flopper, shifting his often ambiguous comments to whatever he thinks his coalition of voters wanted to hear - all the while denying that his views on just about every subject "evolves". He has held many contradictory views of Muslims.
In September of 2015 he said "I love the Muslims," and "I think they're great people." And he said he would he would be willing to appoint a Muslim to his cabinet, "absolutely," having "No problem with that.".
But then came the San Bernardino slaughter, so in December, the politician flips from "no problem" to: "Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on," and he follows up in a January, explaining: "We have to get down to creating a country that's not going to have the kind of problems that we've had with people flying planes into the World Trade Centers, with the — with the shootings in California, with all the problems all over the world. ... We have to find out what's going on."
In May, perplexed by the criticism of his idea he protested that "It's a temporary ban."... that "hasn't been called for yet" and says "This is just a suggestion until we find out what's going on." Says he is open to other suggestions.
But when another massacre occurs in Orlando, Florida, of June 13th of 2016 he tacks back, reminding voters of his prior proposed ban. "And although the pause is temporary, we must find out what is going on. We have to do it," he said. "It will be lifted, this ban, when and as a nation we're in a position to properly and perfectly screen these people coming into our country."
A little over a week later, on June 24-25, Trump traveled to Scotland. He offers new views, at one point Trump tells reporters that he'd be fine with Muslims from Scotland or the U.K. coming to the U.S. Trump later takes to Twitter to explain: "We must suspend immigration from regions linked with terrorism until a proven vetting method is in place." His campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson confirms it, telling CNN, “It doesn’t matter where you’re coming from, except for fact that the terrorist nations, which is something he is adding to this policy to make it more clear, that if you are coming from a hostile nation and you can not be vetted, absolutely you should not come into this country.” Trump has however shied away from labeling this change as a “rollback,” of his policy, but an "expansion" to use territorial criteria rather than "Muslim".
Now only a fool (or a judge) could claim to know the real intentions (or knowledge) of Donald Trump expressed in this EO - ESPECIALLY because the same EO could have been written by anyone else and been considered legal. A rational person could also suggest Trump has no nefarious motives:
First, Trump is like almost all politicians, only worse. His rhetoric reflects what he thinks people want to hear––for him, his actual religious (or anti-religious) beliefs don't exist and are ever changing. As a disingenuous panderer, he wants to showboat, pretending that he is doing something effective about terrorism. That may cynical but does mean he has actual religious animus and intentions to discriminate on that basis.
Second, we know Trump is unsophisticated and often vague...and slowly learns. At first he thinks in common sense universal terms (why not ban Muslims, the source of most modern terrorism?), then after being tutored, he rolls it back to something more sensible and legal...temporarily banning some kinds of travel from a handful of Muslim terrorist nations with vetting problems.
Hence, he arrives at the same kind of policy that, if issued by anyone else, is legal.
In any event, it is a fool that says he/she knows what trumps motivations for the EO are...I doubt even he knows.
