I can't say I'm surprised by the ruling since I was too cowardly to make a prediction on this one. I've looked through a bunch of my posts on the topic, and most of them were pretty weaselly. See, for example,
this one. In the Court's opinions, no discussion of
Lemon v. Kurtzman, which is my reference point in this matter, as I discussed in
this older post, and certainly nobody had the courage to bring up what the travel ban obviously was:
redlining. I've been calling it "redlining for muslims" all along. The "attitudinal model," as a reminder, is the model that says Justices are nothing more than regular, old politicians with regular, old partisan and ideological preferences. The costumes are just a stupid affectation. As George E.P. Box said, "all models are wrong. Some are useful." We're gettin' a helluva lot of use out of that model lately.
