We know who to blame if the country is no longer safe
Feb 13, 2017, 6:39 AM
President Trump’s temporary travel ban remains in limbo but the campaign to hold federal judges responsible for any incident that may happen is full speed ahead.
Ross: Did the president forget the words he repeated 3 weeks ago?
It’s been a week since the president tweeted that if something happens – blame the judge who suspended his order. Presidential Aide Stephen Miller, toured the Sunday talk shows to keep the heat turned up.
Just cannot believe a judge would put our country in such peril. If something happens blame him and court system. People pouring in. Bad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 5, 2017
“I think that it’s been an important reminder to all Americans that we have a judiciary that has taken far too much power and become in many cases a supreme branch of government,” he told Dickerson.
But Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who won the temporary restraining order said he’s ready to take the next step. Instead of just relying on the president’s public statements to argue that the ban was in fact motivated by religion, he said on ABC that he’ll go after emails.
“We can seek depositions from administration officials. We can ask for documents and emails to get behind what truly motivated that executive order. I absolutely intend to use those tools,” Ferguson said.
But on Face the Nation, Stephen Miller — who helped design the executive order — began laughing when John Dickerson asked him about the merits of the case.
“One unelected judge in Seattle cannot remake laws for the entire country. I mean this is just crazy, John, the idea that you have a judge in Seattle say that a foreign national living in Libya has an effective right to enter the United States is … beyond anything we’ve ever seen before.”
And he made a promise.
“The end result of this, though, is that our opponents, the media, and the whole world will soon see as we begin to take further actions, that the powers of the president to protect our country are very substantial and will not be questioned.”
President Trump will do “whatever we need to do, consistent with the law, to keep this country safe.”
Making it very clear who to blame if it’s not.
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