I got that one right. Now two judges, one in Virginia and one in Hawaii, have ruled that Trump’s travel ban policy is motivated by anti-Muslim bigotry. Trump’s comments in Nashville this evening (ban #2 was a “watered-down” version of ban #1) are not going to help him on appeal.

The additional significance of the Hawaii case is that it suggests that careful lawyering, scrupulous wording, narrow tailoring, notice, and orderly rolling-out, are not going to help Trump keep Muslims out of the country. The due process issues that preoccupied the Ninth Circuit have fallen away. Trump’s religious animus is a matter of record. Procedural niceties cannot erase it.