{"id":2021,"date":"2017-02-10T14:48:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T20:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2017-02-10T14:48:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T20:48:37","slug":"9th-circuits-decision-not-checks-balances-act-judicial-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2017\/02\/9th-circuits-decision-not-checks-balances-act-judicial-supremacy\/","title":{"rendered":"9th Circuit&#8217;s Decision: Not &#8216;Checks and Balances,&#8217; But an Act of Judicial Supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/633915142\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/633915142?et=LUvr_TTsSy1eV-x9SjI3_A&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=YvidhhydKEXbCyj9fN7ad2Ys9eTOP2ydKVmk9_QE0Z0=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thursday,\u00a0the Ninth Circuit\u00a0issued a ruling that allowed for the\u00a0continuation of\u00a0the nationwide injunction against\u00a0President\u00a0Donald Trump\u2019s\u00a0controversial\u00a0executive order\u00a0which provided a moratorium on\u00a0immigration from seven\u00a0jihadist\u00a0countries. Erroneously called the \u201cMuslim ban,\u201d this\u00a0executive order\u00a0caused hysterical liberals to\u00a0do things like\u00a0post memes of the Statue of Liberty crying and accuse the\u00a0new President\u00a0of\u00a0tearing\u00a0a hole in the fabric of this nation.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But\u00a0this\u00a0overblown\u00a0reaction\u00a0overlooked the fact that Trump\u2019s executive order\u00a0was a serious step away from the\u00a0Muslim ban suggested\u00a0during the campaign.\u00a0\u00a0If you could get past all the hyperbole in the reporting on the\u00a0subject \u2013 and there was much\u00a0\u2013 his executive order was simply a temporary pause on refugee admissions for 120 days. \u00a0During that time, the administration would make efforts\u00a0to improve the vetting process; refugee admissions would then be capped at 50,000 per year. \u00a0This is\u00a0slightly more than George W. Bush, slightly less than Barack Obama \u2013 hardly\u00a0a\u00a0cause for\u00a0panic.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, when\u00a0the Ninth Circuit ruled,\u00a0many rejoiced. Finally, the\u00a0government was acting as it should \u2013 one\u00a0branch\u00a0keeping the other\u2019s power in check.\u00a0But Dan McLaughlin points out that this is not\u00a0the case. \u00a0\u201cThe court\u2019s opinion did not conclude, or even suggest, that Trump lacked the power\u00a0as president to issue the order,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/444784\/why-ninth-circuit-ruled-against-trumps-refugee-order\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">he wrote<\/a>. \u00a0\u201cIt didn\u2019t resolve that issue in Trump\u2019s favor; it was just assumed it, since it ruled against him on other grounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The decision was absolutely terrible in several ways, and perhaps will be\u00a0fought all the way to the Supreme Court.\u00a0After all, the Ninth has a reputation for being wrong. \u00a0The American Bar Association <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/content\/dam\/aba\/migrated\/intelprop\/magazine\/LandslideJan2010_Hofer.authcheckdam.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">points out<\/a> that it\u00a0has the second highest reversal rate, at 80 percent.<\/p>\n<p>But people should not herald this ruling as some sort of victory of government restraint:\u00a0this decision isn\u2019t\u00a0an appropriate demonstration of the\u00a0separation of powers. \u00a0Rather, it\u2019s\u00a0a demonstration of judicial supremacy: the notion that the judges are not a co-equal branch of government,\u00a0but a superior or supreme branch\u00a0of government.<\/p>\n<p>Read why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/commentary\/mark-meckler\/9th-circuits-decision-not-checks-and-balances-act-judicial-supremacy\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People should not herald this ruling as some sort of victory of government restraint: this decision isn\u2019t an appropriate demonstration of the separation of powers.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2673,"featured_media":2022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>9th Circuit&#039;s Decision: Not &#039;Checks and Balances,&#039; 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