Pointing to the three judges who overturned President Trump’s trade agenda this week, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller noted that the nation is “living under a judicial tyranny.” Indeed, just about every policy advanced by the president is being blocked by activist judges. With that in mind, Fox News’s Peter Doocy wondered why the president doesn’t ask congressional Republicans to do something about it.
“So the courts are basically telling you guys, they think that the White House's policies, the president's policies are in some way against the law,” Doocy said to Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, referring to Wednesday’s ruling from the Court of International Trade blocking Trump’s tariffs. “So why can't President Trump ask the Republicans that control the House and the Republicans that control the Senate just to make a new law?”
To Leavitt, the answer is simple.
"Well, these laws have already been granted to the president by the Constitution and by laws that have been previously passed," she noted. "I'll give you another example. For instance, we've been blocked in court for the revocation of visas from individuals who have the privilege of studying in the United States of America.
"Secretary of State Rubio has simply used his authority to revoke those visas, to revoke that privilege, and we've seen the courts try to block that," she continued. "So if these judges want to be the secretary of State or they want to be the president, they can run for office themselves...But all of the actions the president has taken rely on legal authorities that have already been granted to him by our nation's existing laws."
Doocy: Courts are basically telling you guys they think the white house's policy, the president's policy, are in some way against the law. Why can't President Trump ask the Republicans that control the house and the Republicans that control the senate just to make a new law? pic.twitter.com/Fntgl8hUBA
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