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Carves out legal permanent residence and admitted aliens who want to go overseas temporarily and come back thinking that that would save the due process argument. the court said no. if you're an alien here, even if you're unlawfully present, you have due process rights and if you're a non-immigrant visa holder and you want to travel overseas temporarily, you have due process rights and the executive can't just take away your immigration benefits and rip them up without some sort of notice and some sort of process, which is what happened here. >> right. so it's not -- i mean because i think the...

The rule of law, it was a decisive decision. one of the things that struck me in the 29 pages is that they were more ambitious, less narrow than they needed to be. they wanted to sort of walk up to the line and talk about whether or not sort of looks like a duck acts like a duct quacks like a duck, it looks like a muslim ban. they wanted to talk about standing and i think they were especially irritated, if you read the decision, at the prospect that certain decisions of the executive branch are, in fact, unreviewable. now i don't have a law degree but when i heard that the government was going...

>> and the court says you can't say it's unreviewable because it's subject to broad executive authority. you can't act in ways that violate the constitution and here the court was clear that it thought the actions violated the due process rights of individuals who are present in the united states. >> i want to read this part of the ruling because i thought it was remarkable and it goes to what we were discussing with attorney general schneiderman. the government made the argument that it was unreviewable, what the president did. that the president had unreviewable authority to ban any class of...

Broad impact on people around the world. but our claim is grounded on the adverse impacts on washingtonians. >> paige, you're shaking your head. >> i think there's more to it. the family the yemen has an argument. there are two things he's raised that limits government action more than it protects people. so while the family in yemen may have a hard time making a due process argument, we can still make an establishment clause automatic, an equal protection argument, because those parts of the constitution apply to everyone. and they limit -- >> no, they don't. they do not apply to foreign nati...

Of washingtonians. >> i saw you shaking your head. >> i think there's more to it than that, the family in yemen has an argument, there are two constitutional arguments the attorney general has raised. it protects action rather than people.family in yemen may have a hard time making a due process argument, we can make an establishment clause argument, an equal protection argument, because those parts of the constitution apply to everyone. and they limit government -- >> no, they don't. >> they do not apply to foreign nationals who have never been in this country and have no rights under america...