{"id":64811,"date":"2017-10-19T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64811"},"modified":"2017-10-14T20:49:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T01:49:08","slug":"moral-footnote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64811","title":{"rendered":"Moral Footnote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This article is an example of the Right trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/452569\/supreme-court-gives-trump-travel-ban-victory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">manufacture a victory<\/a>.\u00a0 The courts shut down the travel ban, repeatedly, until it expired.\u00a0 If Trump attempts to resurrect it, we can bet they\u2019ll shut it down again.\u00a0 A victory would have been a ruling that he was right and the lower courts were wrong.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, this is an accurate summation of the Left\u2019s tactics: \u201cIn essence, elements of the \u201cnonpolitical\u201d branch are trying to reverse the result of the 2016 vote by denying the duly elected president the powers of his office.\u201d\u00a0 And they\u2019re continuing to do so as Liberal judges issue nation-wide rulings that clearly stomp on Presidential prerogatives for the flimsiest of reasons. This ruling doesn\u2019t change that but it does highlight the hypocrisy.\u00a0 That never hurts.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Assuming anyone&#8217;s listening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: This article is an example of the Right trying to manufacture a victory.\u00a0 The courts shut down the travel ban, repeatedly, until it expired.\u00a0 If Trump attempts to resurrect it, we can bet they\u2019ll shut it down again.\u00a0 A victory would have been a ruling that he was right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,374,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-social-justice","category-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64816,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64811\/revisions\/64816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}