Will the Court Stand Up to Donald Trump? Blog 7

Editorial found on New York Times by The Editorial Board released on April 23.

Starting with the Trump v Hawaii a challenge to the legality and constitutionality of President Trump’s travel ban. Which indefinitely bars 150 million people majority of them Muslim, from entering the United States. The White House has learned from its early mistakes that the original order which landed one week after Mr. Trump took office and barred entry by all citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries, was marked by such haste and dubious reasoning that it ran immediately in trouble with federal judges across the country and intense public outcry. Could the president be privy to inform the rest of us are not? In my opinion yes he could! Although it might not be in our power to do something the President should still hear the screaming voices because those people out there screaming and fighting have a reason well enough to be heard I voices should matter. Were the ones out there in the real world without protection. Do you think president Donald Trump should have legal authority to issue this sort of ban? Honestly I don’t think so. The three-judge panel of the appeals court ruled that while federal immigration law gives the president the authority to temporarily bar certain classes of noncitizens from entering a sweeping, indefinite ban like Trump has exceeded. According to this Mr. Trump can exclude whomever he wants in order to protect the country from attack, and no judge may second-guess him.

Mr. Trump is surrounded by anti immigrant hard-liners, including his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, who donated one of his favorite staffers, a zealot named Stephen Miller, to help draft the ban. Although no one from the court seems to be happy with Mr.Trumps decisions they have faced this challenge before back in the World War 2. Today, in the face of an executive order again based on racial animus and unfounded fears, the justices have the chance to deliver a very different message about executive power and the meaning of America.