White House anger at court that blocked Trump’s executive order
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A WHITE House official yesterday launched a blistering attack on the federal appeals court that blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, calling its ruling a “judicial usurpation of power.”
The Trump administration has faced multiple legal setbacks to the travel ban it issued on January 27, and the Republican president has said he may issue a new executive order rather than go through lengthy court challenges.
“The president’s powers here are beyond question,” White House adviser Stephen Miller said on the “Fox News Sunday” program.
Miller referred to immigration law that the executive order is based on that gives the US president broad powers to restrict who enters the country on national security grounds.
However, the same law forbids discrimination on the grounds of race, sex, nationality or place of birth or residence. The case could also involve First Amendment protections involving religion.
The executive order Trump issued banned entry into the United States to refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, triggering nationwide protests and legal challenges.
A week later, a federal judge in Seattle issued a temporary restraining order that put the travel ban on hold, eliciting a barrage of angry tweets from Trump. The judge’s suspension was upheld by a three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco last Thursday.
Miller, on several TV news shows, criticized the court and its ruling.
“The 9th Circuit has a long history of being overturned and the 9th Circuit has a long history of overreaching,” he said on the Fox show. “This is a judicial usurpation of power.”
The powers to restrict entry into the US “represent the very apex of presidential authority,” Miller added.
“We have multiple options and we are considering all of them,” Miller said while appearing on ABC’s “This Week” program.
Those include formulating a new executive action, appealing the 9th Circuit panel’s decision to the full appeals court and appealing the emergency stay to the Supreme Court, he said.
If the Seattle lawsuit goes to trial, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson said yesterday that he will depose Trump administration officials to uncover “what truly motivated” the president’s executive order.
Documents and e-mails written by administration officials may contain evidence that the order was an unconstitutional attempt to ban Muslims from entering the United States, and Ferguson said on ABC’s “This Week” that he will use “every tool” at his disposal to bring those to light.
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