Trump: End the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals!

[_Kevin Graham]

Trump demands an end to 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals thwarting his border policies

President Donald Trump warned Thursday that someone – a group of judges or Congress – must step in to stop what he called "horrible decisions" by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that blocked several of his border and immigration orders.

"We get a lot of bad court decisions from the 9th Circuit, which has become a big thorn in our side," Trump said during a televised teleconference with members of the military. "It's a terrible thing when judges take over your protective services, when they tell you how to protect your border. It's a disgrace."

His remarks at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, followed a ruling Monday by U.S. District Court Judge Jon Tigar – who is not an appeals court judge – that halted the administration's attempts to bar immigrants who enter the country illegally from applying for asylum.

“Whatever the scope of the President’s authority, he may not rewrite the immigration laws to impose a condition that Congress has expressly forbidden,” Tigar wrote in his 37-page ruling.