White House Attacks The Court System (Again) After Ruling Upholding DACA

US President Donald Trump takes part in a listening session on gun violence with teachers and students in the State Dining Room of the White House on February 21, 2018. Trump promised more stringent background checks... US President Donald Trump takes part in a listening session on gun violence with teachers and students in the State Dining Room of the White House on February 21, 2018. Trump promised more stringent background checks on gun owners Wednesday as he hosted a group of students who survived last week's mass shooting at a Florida high school. / AFP PHOTO / Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Following the Supreme Court’s decision Monday morning to reject a bid from the Justice Department to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, leaving the fate of the program in the hands of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, the White House hit back at the judicial branch.

White House spokesman Raj Shah called the lower court injunction of Trump’s DACA termination—a court decision based on evidence that Trump was more motivated by animus toward immigrants than constitutional law—a “usurpation of legislative authority.”

“The fact that this occurs at a time when elected representatives in Congress are actively debating this policy only underscores that the district judge has unwisely intervened in the legislative process,” Shah said. “We look forward to having this case expeditiously heard by the appeals court and, if necessary, the Supreme Court, where we fully expect to prevail.”

The White House did not mention that the President has repeatedly worked to undermine efforts on Capitol Hill to pass a bill to protect DACA recipients as the Justice Department was litigating to have the injunction on President Trump’s termination of the program overturned.

Speaking to Republican governors later on Monday, President Trump went on an extended tangent denouncing the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which is currently considering DACA’s fate.

“Nothing’s as bad as the 9th Circuit,” he said. “Speaking of that, DACA is going to be put back into the 9th Circuit. We tried to get it moved quickly because we’d like to help DACA. I think everybody in this room wants to help with DACA, but the Supreme Court just ruled it has to go through the normal channels. So it’s going back in.” 

Trump then seemed to allude to previous 9th Circuit ruling against his administration, including multiple actions to block Trump from implementing a travel ban on people from majority-Muslim countries.

It’s really sad when every single case filed against us is in the 9th Circuit, we lose, we lose, we lose, then we do fine in the Supreme Court,” he said Monday. “But what does that tell you about our court system? It’s a very, very sad thing.”

The remarks, which come as the Trump administration is working with Senate Republicans to rapidly pack the federal courts with staunch conservatives, are in keeping with the President’s past attacks on the judicial branch of government. Trump has a pattern of targeting individual federal judges for public condemnation, and has complained that any ruling against his administration is “unfair.” 

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  1. Hey, jackass! It was the Supreme Court who denied your motion, you blithering idiot.

  2. Well, if nothing else, at least you dirty fuckers are getting schooled in how the court systems here in the U.S. work.

  3. OT: Anyone else having issues with the thread programs? I even got signed out while in the middle of reading an article. Not to mention those 502 Gateway Errors – as many of them as I’ve come across over the years, I want that written on my tombstone in some fashion.

  4. Usurping? legislative process? You’ve got to be kidding, haha. Those words - Republicans in Congress, the Orange Messiah. ROFL

  5. I wish Mueller would get a move on, and put this fuckwit traitor behind bars already.

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