The White House delayed it earlier this week, because Trump advisers thought it could step on the good press he’d earned from his speech, thus inadvertently undercutting their own claims that enacting the ban is an urgent national security matter.



Here’s the real reason for the delay: The Trump administration can’t solve the problem that has always bedeviled this policy, which is that there isn’t any credible national security rationale for it. 


Unlike on the campaign trail, when you’re governing, you actually have to have justification for what you’re proposing, or you often run into trouble, like the courts throwing out your weak attempt to enact fascist acts.