Posted on 06/03/2016 10:56:00 AM PDT by McGruff
Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) on Friday said Donald Trump’s temporary ban on Muslim travel into the U.S. would not survive Constitutional scrutiny.
“If I had to pick a particular position that would concern me the most, it would be the ban on Muslims,” Cole, a lawmaker close to GOP leadership, said Friday on MSNBC. "I think it’s clearly, you know, unconstitutional, it’s ill-advised, it would really hurt the U.S.
“We need a lot of Muslim friends to deal with what we’re dealing with overseas, and we have some great Muslim friends. And we ought to recognize that and be sensitive.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
He knows.
“...we have some great Muslim friends.”
Translation: he is receiving “contributions” from Muslims.
Give Cole’s demonstrated mental incompetence for his job, he should resign today.
But 0bama’s ban on Christians is, right?
“Cole spent two years working as a paid consultant for the United States Chamber of Commerce,”
But allowing 15 million illegals in is Constitutional? This guy is just another Democrat that wears a GOPe button in his lapel.
Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.)... Used to be.
What he actually said was a “temporary ban” on Muslims entering the country (not Muslim American citizens) until we can figure out who they are, etc. That IS a timeout but the liberal media ran with it to make it sound like he would completely and permanently ban all Muslims. That’s not what he said.
And I’m not an idiot. I understand exactly what he said and meant.
Donald Trump's proposed temporary measure is eminently Constitutional, and indeed Jimmy Carter used such explicitly defined Presidential powers to prevent Iranians from entering the US during the hostage crisis.
Under US federal law, the President has arbitrary authority to deny foreign nationals entry into this country, based on any criteria he or she sees fit. Period. End of sentence.
There isn't even the remotest Constitutional issue with Trump's notion. So if this poltroon/GOP representative (but I repeat myself) believes such lies, he needs to either "back it" up or "STF" up...
Vote Trump!
Yep....same here! Everything I wanted to know about sharia I saw on 9/11!
Is Rep. Cole aware of this law? And does he judge it unconstitutional, too?
What a moron.
We already have radical Islamic terrorism;
Since certainly before 911. How many is immaterial. It doesn't take many to do enormous damage.
Colleen Hufford was unavailable for comment.
“This guy is either super-ignorant of our Constitution and political history, or else he is a traitor”
Both. Tom Cole is an embarrassment to the state of Oklahoma.
Sorry, I was addressing the article. Not directed at you. I agree with you.
** “We need a lot of Muslim friends to deal with what we’re dealing with overseas, and we have some great Muslim friends.”**
really? like who?
No foreigner has a constitutional right to enter the country and the US government is perfectly free to discriminate in admissions to the country in any manner it sees fit.
Period.
You could simply consider “Islam” as the world’s largest terrorist organization, because it is.
This cole loser is an uninformed idiot. Read the Constitution, you appeaser, one-world freak. Please OK...get rid of this bum.
LOL, I thought that might be the case. I have done it myself.
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