President Trump just suffered a massive loss in court. Here's what it means.

The Circuit Court had a clear message for President Trump: You are not king, and we will not be moved

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Americans by the tens of thousands — and perhaps hundreds of thousands — tuned in Tuesday to a dense one hour and eight minutes of legal and policy arguments about President Trump's executive order on immigration. The grainy audio served as a civics lesson for the digital age.

On Thursday evening, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals gave America's 45th president a civics lessons of his own, ruling 3-0 to uphold the suspension of Trump's unilateral order that tried to keep refugees and travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. Our president's response: raging in all-caps on Twitter.

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Marc Ambinder

Marc Ambinder is TheWeek.com's editor-at-large. He is the author, with D.B. Grady, of The Command and Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry. Marc is also a contributing editor for The Atlantic and GQ. Formerly, he served as White House correspondent for National Journal, chief political consultant for CBS News, and politics editor at The Atlantic. Marc is a 2001 graduate of Harvard. He is married to Michael Park, a corporate strategy consultant, and lives in Los Angeles.