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Trump’s Travel Ban Appeal Keeps Hitting the Courts
The administration asked for a faster appellate process after lower-court setbacks on the revised travel ban, underscoring how badly the rollout was still going.
Edition · March 22, 2017
The Daily Fuckup — March 22, 2017
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Closing take
By the end of the day, Trumpworld had managed to look both overconfident and underprepared, which is a brutal combination in Washington. The health bill was headed toward a public embarrassment, and the wiretap story was still behaving like a charge in search of evidence. If this is what the first quarter of governing looked like, the rest of the year was not exactly promising.
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