Posted on 06/06/2017 5:43:00 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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Mr. Trump’s more consequential eruption was against Mr. Trump’s Justice Department. He was evidently responding to a segment on MSNBC’s “ Morning Joe ” about his executive order temporarily suspending immigration entry from six countries with a history of terrorism.
“People, the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever they want,” Mr. Trump wrote. “I am calling it what we need and what it is, a TRAVEL BAN!” Mr. Trump added that “The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to S.C.”
These comments are reckless on multiple levels. The original blunderbuss order was rolled out on the Friday night of Mr. Trump’s first week as President with zero public explanation and little internal vetting. White House staffers from the Steve Bannon wing preferred the stun-grenade approach, but Mr. Trump’s legal team convinced him to sign a legally bulletproof revision in March because they preferred to win in court.
The new order wasn’t “watered down” on substance but did make pragmatic exceptions for, say, permanent residents with green cards and military translators. Had the White House done such legal due diligence in the first place, the travel ban might not have become a political bonfire—not least because the President enjoys wide constitutional and statutory discretion over immigration and national security.
If Mr. Trump’s action is legal on the merits, he seems to be angry that his lawyers are trying to vindicate the rule of law. Attorney General Jeff Sessions would be justified if he resigned, and this is merely the latest incident in which Mr. Trump popping off undermined his own lawyers.
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If that undermines anything, the justices are fools.
Sessions is a little slow on the take up. DOJ is in need of a leader.
Joe DeGenova would have been great.
Same crap as his Mexico comments when he opened his campaign. He speaks plainly and the fake journalists at WSJ cannot handle that language.
Girls.
#MAGA
KEK
Now that the travel ban is going to the SC he can say anything; there will be enough judges that will follow the Constitution.
Here, here! Sessions, who is always looking for an excuse to apologize or recuse, is absolutely the wrong guy for AG in this climate.
What the morons at the WSJ don’t seem to realize is that it STILL doesn’t matter what Trump says; if the language of the EO comports with the law, what he says about it is immaterial.
Sorry...it makes a difference for SCOTUS...kellyannes husband has tweeted just that very thing..and has said other lawyers agree with him .george has an Interesting bio.
He called it a travel ban. They had accused him of calling it a muslim ban.
Now they are all repeating that it is a travel ban.
Are they really that stupid?
They really go out of their way to avoid using the adjective “President”.
Did they ever call Larry Sinclair’s boyfriend, Mister Obama?
Uhhh..no he cant just say anything..he is jeopardizing the outcome. I refer you to george conways tweets from his dormant account
If Trump had followed the advice of the WSJ editorial board Hillary would be president.
The Supreme Court doesn’t get swayed by tweets.
The judges below found that campaign rhetoric and other off the cuff remarks control the outcome of analysis of the language of an EO.
I'm with Trump on this - if SCOTUS wants to join in that means of legal analysis, by all means, get it in the open.
The hand-wringers (like Kellyanne Conway's husband) are lawyers who defer to "legal analysis of EO by reference to twitter." More idiots. As if there is a shortage.
Translation: “Mr. Trump, you’re not one of us. This is not your playground. You don’t think like us you don’t talk like us. You can’t play with us. We don’t like you.”
Sessions is just fine. He’s the mouse that roars. It’s all about timing.
It’s only the WSJ attempting to misdirect the attention of its readers to thinking Trump is a fool ... when he is clearly .. NOT.
“Same crap as his Mexico comments when he opened his campaign. He speaks plainly and the fake journalists at WSJ cannot handle that language.
Girls.”
Agree. It’s as if their only source of information is CNN and late night comedy.
They don’t even realize how out of touch they are with most Americans, or that most of their readership thinks they’re idiots.
WSJ. I work at a financial firm. Regardless of how my coworkers voted, they can’t argue with the market’s performance, and many are starting to rethink their perception of Trump.
The travel ban and all associated with it is not the issue. The Supreme Court will determine if President Trump has the right to enforce his Constitutional/Congressional mandated immigration powers.
....That's one horse I will NOT put any money on..!!!
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