They won't stop. DOJ filed an
appeal to the Supreme Court even after they got what seemed like a victory last week. Somebody really, really, really doesn't want my mother in law to visit...
It's 110 pages, but the majority is just cut and paste from prior rulings. We get some assurances that something substantive happened in the mysterious "multi-Department worldwide review" that followed 13769, but I'm still not satisfied that they fully evaluated all options short of a blanket ban that included children and grandparents. They're arguing again that this is temporary because we're just debating what to do in the interim while the trial proceeds in Hawaii, and since it's temporary any damage to the Iranian-American and other communities is not irreparable. Seems like we've heard that line of reasoning before...
There was also an interesting
read in the Post this morning that seems to confirm some of what we suspected about why LH was the only carrier boarding blacklisted passengers to Massachusetts in the early days of this saga.