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Any indication which of your constitutional claims or other claims, your establishment clause claim, your equal protection claim, which of those were substantially likely for you to prevail on and which maybe he didn't think you were as likely to prevail on? >> that's a good question. it was an oral ruling. we expect a written opinion from the judge this weekend is what he said, in part to allow the federal government to appeal quickly, if they wanted to. so, i'm working off memory from what was, as you might imagine, a pretty dramatic moment as he read his statement. but my recollection is th...

>> exactly. so, there were a lot of republicans who feel the way this was rolled out -- forget they, "a," don't like the substance. more than 20 republicans on the record saying they don't like the substance. many, many more saying the botched rollout of this actually impedes their ability to get a domestic agenda through because this is slowing down the trump administration. >> kingston, from the trump administration side, they could go to court this weekend, get this overturned possibly, and continue on. >> look, they can. as i understand it, the ruling is not public yet, so we don't know wh...

>> that's a fascinating question, because if the 9th circuit rules against the trump administration it goes to the supreme court. the 9th circuit's ruling will be the first one that gets there. that would become, technically, the law of the land. so people are going to come to realize pretty quickly, having a 4-4 split ideologically on the supreme court as we currently do, can have a big impact on the nation. >> speaking of splits, this is exactly the kind of thing that the supreme court looks for in deciding to take cases. so you'll have not only a circuit splis split, but a simultaneous circ...

Where you had green card holders and so on, there was just so much confusion with the rollout of this, you know, you had so many republicans up on capitol hill who have been pretty supportive of this president all along scratching their heads and saying, hey, wait a minute, this was just not handled properly. so, with this ruling, this temporary restraining order out in washington state, i would imagine the white house is going to act fairly quickly here to get this appealed, because this could once again result in some chaos and confusion over the weekend. >> jim acosta, no doubt, we'll be ch...

Visas are just as good as they were before this board -- [ inaudible ] -- the trump administration was issued. >> from what we hear from the attorney general in washington tonight, this was a verbal ruling by the judge. they are awaiting either a short, written judgment and a longer one perhaps this weekend. but just in terms of the timing, professor tribe, if the department of justice decides to bring this to the 9th circuit, how quickly can they go about doing that and get a ruling? >> if i had a crystal ball, i would be hesitant to whip it out for this purpose. it's pretty clear that the mo...