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Mitch McConnell: Congress unlikely to step in if courts throw out Trump travel ban
CNN ^ | 02/05/2017 | By Eric Bradner

Posted on 02/05/2017 10:02:39 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said President Donald Trump isn't likely to get his travel ban implemented by Congress if courts strike it down.

"I don't know that that's necessary," McConnell told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" Sunday. "I mean, the courts are going to decide whether the executive order the President issued is valid or not, and we all follow court orders."

McConnell's comments come after a federal judge put a pause on Trump's order that barred citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries -- Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen -- from entering the US for 90 days, all refugees for 120 days and indefinitely halts refugees from Syria.

Trump lashed out at the "so-called judge," tweeting Saturday: "The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!"

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 115th; bordersecurity; congress; first100days; mitchmcconnell; travelban; trump45
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1 posted on 02/05/2017 10:02:39 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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Mitch, you are out of touch.


2 posted on 02/05/2017 10:03:44 AM PST by SoFloFreeper (Isaiah 25:8)
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To: SeekAndFind

The turtle speaks from inside his shell. McConnell will never be cited for his courage.


3 posted on 02/05/2017 10:04:47 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: SeekAndFind

So McConnell now thinks we have no right to decide who enters our country.

Breathtaking.

So Mitch...Invasion is a civil right?


4 posted on 02/05/2017 10:04:56 AM PST by Regulator
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To: SeekAndFind

These damned weak RINOs in Congress are going to be a huge pain for years to come!! McConnell should be doing everything possible to support Pres. Trump’s important initiatives - instead, he undermines him.


5 posted on 02/05/2017 10:05:14 AM PST by Enchante (Hoping the Clintonistas are gone from our public life forever!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

So let’s just leave it up to the federal judiciary to establish and implement immigration policy. Brilliant.


6 posted on 02/05/2017 10:05:59 AM PST by KyCats
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To: SeekAndFind

Is this all he does? Tell us what he wont do?

Does he have any plan at all?


7 posted on 02/05/2017 10:06:07 AM PST by joshua c (Cut the cord! Don't pay for the rope they hang you with.)
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To: SeekAndFind

We already anticipated this. The subject was discussed at length on FR even before the election. Our Congress is an obstacle as each and every one of them are merely in DC for career advancement post politics. Whores and pimps, they are.


8 posted on 02/05/2017 10:08:55 AM PST by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: SeekAndFind

McConnell would have allowed Nazis entry during WW2.

Treasonous.


9 posted on 02/05/2017 10:10:10 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: SeekAndFind
He's right. The Executive Order is "good".

Look at the history of the Judge and you'll realize that "someone" got to him.

10 posted on 02/05/2017 10:10:36 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: SeekAndFind

Jam his phone lines. Demand action and don’t go quietly into the night...


11 posted on 02/05/2017 10:11:16 AM PST by dragonblustar (I love to read Trump tweets in the morning.)
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To: SeekAndFind

He sure had no problem kissing up to Obama, did ya Mitch? Gave him, and the Democrats, practically everything they wanted. Now that a real leader is in charge, they all of a sudden get brave and want to contest leadership. They knew the Democrats would kick their behind. We need new leadership in the House and Senate before they get us all killed.


12 posted on 02/05/2017 10:12:19 AM PST by parthian shot
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To: SeekAndFind

What a light-in-the-loafers quisling and capon.


13 posted on 02/05/2017 10:12:25 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Pre-emptive losing that Trent Lott would be proud of.

Mitch the B!+c# hasn't changed, and he needs to be removed from any position of leadership, right now.

14 posted on 02/05/2017 10:12:35 AM PST by OKSooner (If they're wearing masks, shoot them in the knee and then waterboard them.)
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To: dragonblustar

Something is going to need to be done.

It isnt enough to make turtle jokes and scream treason at the computer.

This isn’t a spectator’s show where we all get to kick back and relax because of last November.


15 posted on 02/05/2017 10:13:30 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: SeekAndFind

the crux of the judges ruling on the EO is based on it not being equally applied.

another freeper suggested Pres. Trump remove the EO and creat a new one that stops all immigration.

I can live with that.


16 posted on 02/05/2017 10:14:10 AM PST by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: SeekAndFind

Mitch will sabotage SCOTUS too.


17 posted on 02/05/2017 10:14:30 AM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not tired of Winning)
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To: SeekAndFind
Reagan had eight years after two landslide elections and couldn't make a dent in Washington.

You think they are going to let Trump do anything?

18 posted on 02/05/2017 10:15:49 AM PST by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: SoFloFreeper

He’s not out of touch.
He also doesnt have to worry about re-election.

He is intensely connected with Wall Street interests through his wifes sisters who are all married into big shots there - he is married to Elaine Chao, and was bailed out by her billionaire tycoon father when he got into financial trouble.

Follow the money, he is part of the interconnected system.


19 posted on 02/05/2017 10:16:58 AM PST by buwaya
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President Trump should write a new EO stopping ALL immigration for 180 days.


20 posted on 02/05/2017 10:17:21 AM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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