Listen: Andrew McCarthy on the 9th Circuit Decision and Trump’s Rocky Road with the Judiciary

A federal appeals court refused to reinstate President Trump’s travel order. Minutes after the decision was announced, President Trump shared his thoughts regarding the ruling on Twitter.

Listen to The Larry O’Connor Show as National Review Columnist Andrew C. McCarthy discussed the court’s decision and his latest article, Populist Presidents and ‘Demoralized’ Judges.

An excerpt of the article can be found below:

Rich Lowry has a great column on our “overly sanctified” view of the judiciary. It comes amid the hysteria over President Trump’s rather mild rebuke of federal judges — particularly, James Robart, the district judge who imperiously issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) against Trump’s temporary travel ban excluding refugees and other aliens from seven countries. To a lesser extent, Trump has also groused about the three-judge panel from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that on Thursday refused to overrule Robart’s TRO. (Note: This column was written before the Ninth Circuit’s decision was announced.)

Over the weekend, Trump notoriously tweeted that Robart is a “so-called judge.” On Wednesday, he conveyed exasperation over the previous evening’s Ninth Circuit oral argument, which the president saw as straying far afield of the clear statute that he argues — persuasively — authorizes the ban he has ordered. [Read More]

 

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