HAPPY FLAG DAY | Trump Gets Tight Timeline For Travel Ban Review | THE THIRD BRANCH STRIKES BACK
June 14, 2017
TODAY IN HISTORY
|On this day in 1943, the United States Supreme Court, in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, ruled 6-3 that children in public schools could not be forced to salute the American flag. Hopefully the irony isn’t lost on you that this day, June 14, is also Flag Day — the day on which the United States annually celebrates the adoption of the American flag which happened on June 14, 1777.
IN TIME
|Tuesday, the Supreme Court decided to give the Trump administration more time to file papers in its bid to reinstate the now notorious “travel ban,” as the president calls it.
WINK WINK, HINT HINT – MARK YO CALENDARS
|The Supreme Court laid out a new briefing schedule this week that hints the high court may decide by the end of the month whether PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S travel ban can take effect immediately. The order calls for briefing to be completed by June 21, the day before the justices are scheduled to meet for their private conference. In that meeting, it’s possible the justices will decide whether to hear the travel ban case and whether they’ll let the ban go into effect in the interim.
TWEET DU JOUR
|Never not tweeting, PRESIDENT TRUMP had something to say about the 9th Circuit Court’s ruling on his travel ban. In a statement he blasted out on Twitter yesterday, Trump said, “Well, as predicted, the 9th Circuit did it again – Ruled against the TRAVEL BAN at such a dangerous time in history of our country. S.C.” AP reports that the “S.C.” may be a reference to the Supreme Court — the next stop in the legal battle over this ban — but at this point, who can ever be sure.
UNDER HIS EYE
|For CNN, Joan Biskupic reports that judges across the country are keeping a close eye on PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. She writes that for months, the president has “belittled federal judges on social media and tried to undermine their legitimacy in the public eye.” But the third branch isn’t taking this sitting down. “So far, the message is that the third branch of government intends to provide a significant check on an executive proudly disrupting the status quo. This first big legal battle over Trump policy could foreshadow greater judicial scrutiny for his initiatives and escalating tensions between the White House and the courts.”
OTHER NEWS
The Ninth Circuit Rejects Trump's Travel Ban Again
The New Yorker“The Ninth Circuit found, in those facts, yet another indication that the President’s order was detached from the requirements of law. What it is attached to—bigotry, demographic panic, fear, a belief in the free-floating force of Presidential power—is another question, and one that has not been dispelled. It is available for the Supreme Court to work out.”
Ginsburg Cites Own Work in Striking Down Citizenship Law That Treats Mothers and Fathers Differently
The Washington Post“Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg relied in part on gender equality cases she brought as a pioneering civil rights lawyer as the Supreme Court on Monday struck down a law that treats unwed mothers and fathers differently when granting citizenship to their children born abroad.”