It's been a tough month for whatever qualifies these days as the White House brain trust, as their rollout of President Trump's long-promised Muslim ban turned out to be an embarrassing failure, especially for an administration desperate to prove it has any idea how to go about the task of governing. Yet even after getting righteously dunked on by the courts, the administration's second iteration of the ban, which was set to take effect at midnight on Thursday, sure looked an awful lot like the first, almost as if someone had forgotten to turn off "Track Changes" before sending the revised draft. It happens to the best of us, and also to Steve Bannon, I suppose.

Sure enough, on Wednesday, another federal judge—this time in Hawaii—issued a nationwide temporary restraining order, this time barring the enforcement of Muslim Ban 2.0. While last month's court order focused on the White House's suspiciously slippery rationales for offered in support of the executive order, the Hawaii court took a different tack, highlighting months of statements from members of the administration that their Muslim ban was, in fact, intended to be a Muslim ban. No one was safe from the judicial dragging that ensued.

Stephen Miller, the strategy wunderkind who went on TV last month and promised that the revised executive order would have "the same basic policy outcome" as the first? Yep, the court saw that, genius.

Rudy Giuliani, a man who wakes up every day trying to think of new, exciting ways to get on television and yell something offensive and nonsensical about brown people? Yes, his take was certainly noted.