With the London and Manchester terror attacks looming in the background, President Trump has seemingly had enough with judicial activists blocking his executive order temporarily banning travel from terrorist-friendly nations.
He made it clear that he is no longer interested in playing semantics with an order he believes is necessary to keep our nation safe.
Via CNN:
President Donald Trump on Monday emphatically referred to his executive order on immigration as a “travel ban” and said his Justice Department should not have submitted a “watered down, politically correct version” to the Supreme Court.
Trump’s suggestion that changes to the ban — which, among other things, temporarily restricts travel to the US from several Muslim-majority countries — were due to political correctness could hamper his administration’s legal argument that the executive order did not target Muslims. As a candidate, Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown” of Muslim immigration to the United States.
Trump took to social media to declare he doesn’t really care what people have to say about his actions – it’s a “travel ban” – and that is that.
People, the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever they want, but I am calling it what we need and what it is, a TRAVEL BAN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2017
In fact, Trump took his own Justice Department to task for rewriting the original executive order to make it more palatable to the activist judges.
The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to S.C.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2017
He demanded that they expedite a hearing with the 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!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2017
President Trump then concluded that regardless of the “slow and political” courts trying to interfere with his ability to keep America safe, he would continue to fight.
In any event we are EXTREME VETTING people coming into the U.S. in order to help keep our country safe. The courts are slow and political!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2017
Last week, the Trump administration filed a pair of emergency applications with the Supreme Court seeking to reinstate the President’s executive order banning travel from six terror-involved countries.
The President vowed from the moment his original travel ban was halted to fight all the way to the Supreme Court.
SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 9, 2017
It would seem he’s had enough and is unwilling to bend under the pressure of being politically correct.
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