WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump on Wednesday slammed the court that is deliberating his immigration and refugee executive order for having motivations he described as “so political.”
Speaking to a group of police chiefs and sheriffs, Trump honed in on the language used in a provision detailing presidential powers to limit “inadmissible aliens.”
The provision states that when a president finds that the entry of foreigners may be detrimental to U.S. interests, the president may “suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.”
“It was written beautifully,” Trump told the attendees, asserting that even “a bad high school student would understand this.”
“Courts seem to be so political and it would be so great for our justice system if they would be able to read a statement and do what’s right,” he added. “And that has to do with the security of our country, which is so important.”