Trump in call to seek a tougher travel ban
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US President Donald Trump urged his administration to seek a tougher version of his controversial travel ban proposal yesterday following the attack in London, and pressed for an expedited judicial review by the nation’s top court.
Trump’s comments, made in tweets, could weigh on his administration’s emergency request last week asking the US Supreme Court to reinstate his travel ban on people entering the United States from six predominantly Muslim countries.
“The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original travel ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to S.C.,” tweeted Trump, referring to the US Supreme Court.
“The Justice Dept. should ask for an expedited hearing of the watered down travel ban before the Supreme Court — & seek much tougher version!” Trump, who as president oversees the department, said in another tweet.
Late on Thursday, Trump’s legal team asked the court to allow his controversial March 6 executive order for the travel ban to take effect immediately, despite being blocked by lower courts. The Supreme Court rarely grants emergency requests.
Trump has said his ban, a centerpiece of his presidential campaign, is necessary to protect Americans from terrorist attacks. Critics say the ban is discriminatory and his reasoning for it flawed.
“The president’s tweets may help encourage his base, but they can’t help him in court,” said Jonathan Adler, a professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
At issue is whether the travel curbs violate the US Constitution’s ban on religious discrimination by targeting Muslims. Justice Department lawyers have argued that their revised executive order is substantially different from the first one issued in January.
Jonathan Turley, a law professor at The George Washington University who has said the administration’s immigration order is legal, said Trump’s references to it as a “travel ban” in his tweets undermine the Justice Department’s defense of it.
“Ironically, it makes more difficult the very thing that Trump was demanding: the reinstatement of his immigration order,” Turley said.
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