Via Billy
Thursday on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour,” George Washington University Law
School professor Jonathan Turley reacted to the Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals decision to uphold a stay by a lower to halt President Donald
Trump’s executive order restricting immigration to the United States
from seven predominantly Muslim nations. Although the court ruled in the
opponents of the Trump order’s favor, the law still was on Trump’s side
and that the Trump administration was using the “virtually the
identical arguments” the Obama administration had used in defense of its
immigration policy.
“Well, it was a poorly crafted executive order, and
it was a terrible rollout,” Turley said. “But I still think that the
law favors the administration once you get to the merits. I don’t agree
with many of those, some of those cases. But the courts have been highly
deferential to the president, and they generally don’t second-guess. I
think the people also have to acknowledge that the Trump administration
here is making virtually the identical argument to the Obama
administration.” “The Obama administration argued the president’s
judgment on administration was largely unreviewable,” he continued. “He
argued that he could even refuse or order the failure to enforce
immigration laws.
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