President Trump renewed his call for a travel ban on migrants from certain high-risk nations this morning in a series of tweets that also criticized the new version of the ban that the Justice Department submitted to the Supreme Court.
"The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to S.C.," tweeted Trump.
People, the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever they want, but I am calling it what we need and what it is, a TRAVEL BAN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2017
The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to S.C.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2017
The Justice Dept. should ask for an expedited hearing of the watered down Travel Ban before the Supreme Court - & seek much tougher version!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2017
In any event we are EXTREME VETTING people coming into the U.S. in order to help keep our country safe. The courts are slow and political!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2017
The Department of Justice's petition asks the Supreme Court to determine whether or not Trump's order is legal after a ruling by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that the ban "drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimination."
The Trump administration always said that it would take the ban to the Supreme Court after the first two versions of the executive order were struck down by an appeals court in San Francisco.
