Muslim Travel Ban Thread (6/26: SCOTUS voted 5-4 to uphold the administration’s ban)

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Bernouts said Obama should have forced a SC Justice through that loophole when he had the chance right before he left office. :bernieumad:
Y'all still pushing that recess appointment stuff? He couldn't force through a recess appointment in a Republican-controlled senate. This is old, but read it: Is a recess appointment to the Court an option? (UPDATED) - SCOTUSblog. You too @FAH1223. It's all irrelevant now, though, because the turtle made sure to hold pro forma senate sessions to eliminate even the slightest chance of it happening.
 

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A more important caveat, perhaps, is that other statistics suggest that this level of "defection" isn't all that out of the ordinary. Believing that all those Sanders voters somehow should have been expected to not vote for Trump may be to misunderstand how primary voters behave.

For example, Schaffner tells NPR that around 12 percent of Republican primary voters (including 34 percent of Ohio Gov. John Kasich voters and 11 percent of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio voters) ended up voting for Clinton. And according to one 2008 study, around 25 percent of Clinton primary voters in that election ended up voting for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in the general. (In addition, the data showed 13 percent of McCain primary voters ended up voting for Obama, and 9 percent of Obama voters ended up voting for McCain — perhaps signaling something that swayed voters between primaries and the general election, or some amount of error in the data, or both.)

The Bernie primary voters who made the shift were mainly independents and the big push behind Bernie being able to beat Trump has always been that he could steal those votes from Trump while the Dems voted for him...but looking at how disloyal the Hillary wing was back when she lost to Obama, yall are probably right that Bernie woulda lost to Trump after all.
 
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