Checks and Balances

President Donald Trump today attacked those challenging his travel ban, saying even a "bad high school student" would understand the law that confers on the president the power to restrict immigration. Trump defended his immigration executive order, and he insisted the country is "at risk" because of the temporary halt on the order, and he called the ban a "weapon" necessary for the security of the nation.

But even a 'bad high school student' knows that our government is divided into three branches for a reason:  so no one branch becomes more powerful than the other.  Executive Orders from the President do not carry the power of laws passed by Congress and the power of Judicial Review allows the court to declare them unconstitutional.

The President would not go so far as to call the court biased, but did question the decision of the 'so called judge' who ruled against him.   Complicating matters worse is the anticipated stalemate if the case makes it to the Supreme Court and the comments of the President's choice to fill the Supreme Court vacancy.