TRUMP’S CONTROVERSIAL CONSERVATIVE DARLINGS | The Ban Is Back In Court | Podcast Du Jour With Lyle Denniston
July 12, 2017
TODAY IN HISTORY
|On this day in 1977, PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER defended Supreme Court limits on government payments for poor women’s abortions, saying, “There are many things in life that are not fair.”
A CHANGE IS GONNA COME
|USA Today’s Richard Wolf reports on PRESIDENT TRUMP’S opportunity to change the makeup of the federal judiciary and the controversial conservatives he is picking to make that happen. He writes that although many of Trump’s judicial nominees are facing sharp criticism from the left, the Republicans hold all the cards. “As a result, the president and his legal advisers stand at the threshold of remaking the federal courts over the next few years by nominating and promoting mostly young, conservative thinkers who they hope will be uncompromising in their approach to the law.”
THE BAN IS BACK IN COURT
|Lyle Denniston with Constitution Daily covers yesterday’s court hearing of the latest challenge to the Trump administration’s travel ban. He writes, “Disagreeing with a federal appeals court, Trump Administration lawyers argued on Tuesday night that a federal judge had no authority to expand the categories of foreign nationals and refugees who may enter the U.S. under a presidential executive order. In a new filing in a federal trial court in Honolulu, the Trump team argued that U.S. DISTRICT JUDGE DERRICK K. WATSON ‘lacks authority…to grant additional relief beyond what the Supreme Court permitted’ in its June 26 decision on this immigration controversy. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit indicated just last Friday that Judge Watson did have authority to interpret what the Justices had done, and to order a stop to any violation of the Justices’ ruling if he made such a finding.”
HERE'S THE 4-1-1
|The Associated Press explains what it is exactly that Hawaii is trying to get out of their push to relax the Muslim travel ban, why the courts have so far refused to rule on the merits of the request, and where the case could go from here.
PODCAST DU JOUR
|Listen to the dean of the Supreme Court press corps, LYLE DENNISTON, reflect on the high court, the Constitution and his long career covering SCOTUS. Podcast courtesy of Constitution Daily.