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Travel Ban Smacked Down In Court
A federal judge blocked key parts of Trump’s refugee-and-travel ban, turning the administration’s first big immigration push into an immediate legal embarrassment.
Edition · February 3, 2017
The Daily Fuckup — February 3, 2017
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Closing take
For one day’s worth of governing, this was a very expensive lesson in the difference between campaign rhetoric and constitutional reality. Trump had promised disruption; what he got was a courtroom timeout and a fresh round of public backlash over how sloppily the rollout had been handled.
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