Why the right is tweeting 9-O at Hillary Clinton today

Back in January, two weeks after Donald Trump‘s first travel ban was implemented, the 9th Circuit unanimously denied the Trump administration’s appeal of a district court’s ruling against the ban.

Trump reacted in his typically unmeasured style with a furious tweet.

SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 9, 2017

People on the left were overjoyed when Hillary Clinton, who lost the 2016 election to Trump, chimed in with her own little nudge in the president’s direction.

3-0

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) February 10, 2017

Now, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear Trump’s appeal of a later version of the travel ban, which was also blocked. But, more importantly, in the interregnum, the justices are allowing portions of the ban to proceed until the case is heard in October.

Trump, again, responded with his typical gusto.

Very grateful for the 9-O decision from the U. S. Supreme Court. We must keep America SAFE!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 26, 2017

Those on the right clearly saw a victor in that Twitter battle from months ago.

https://twitter.com/sirnasty22/status/879428053402697728

Now, they are gleefully retweeting Clinton’s own tweet, to further twist the knife.

9-0 https://t.co/P0udOiprGg

— Bill Mc7 (@BillMc7) June 26, 2017

https://twitter.com/LADominate/status/879418566302289920

9-0

;^) https://t.co/SrrFOMJfu3

— Jayoh Essaych (@Jayoh_Essaych) June 26, 2017

Haha! 9-0 🖕
Supreme Court sides with the Constitution and Not Corruption https://t.co/x4dtBAHsLC

— 🇺🇸Padme Skywalker© (@NinaReihnhart) June 26, 2017

https://twitter.com/KallieTinSC/status/879413092102402048

https://twitter.com/LiamRushtonRUS/status/879412619337138176

For all the 9-0 (or 9-O) responses, Trump’s tweet is only sort of accurate. While the justices agreed to hear the case and ruled that the injunction should be immediately lifted, three dissented from the court’s decision to issue a caveat to the travel ban as written. The ban will now allow people from the countries listed in it to travel to the U.S., so long as they have a legitimate reason (family/work) for being here.

Judges Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito disagreed with that, saying they would have allowed the ban to go ahead, without the caveat.

So, 9-0 ish.