Has travel ban put White House and courts at odds?
Donald Trump contends that the president has vast powers concerning national security. [Image: Carlo Allegri/Reuters].
There is no solid reason for Donald Trump’s travel ban. He does not have evidence to support his executive order, that targets some suspect countries but not others.
This is a security measure that could blow up in Herr Drumpf’s face.
As the Trump administration prepared to challenge a ruling against its executive order on refugees and travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, experts said the US had been brought to the brink of a full-blown constitutional crisis.
The ruling was made on Friday night in Seattle by federal judge James Robart. On Saturday, the president attacked Robart on Twitter, calling him a “so-called judge” and saying his opinion was “ridiculous and will be overturned”.
Observers were stunned by the apparent lack of legal groundwork done by the White House aides – reportedly senior counsel Steve Bannon and policy chief Steven Miller – who wrote Trump’s executive order, thereby producing a lack of clarity which contributed to chaos at airports and rulings against the administration.
Source: ‘An epic confrontation’: has travel ban put White House and courts at odds? | US news | The Guardian
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