Trump Denounces Judge's Travel Ban Block as 'Unprecedented Judicial Overreach'

Hours after U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson in Hawaii issued a nationwide temporary restraining order blocking Trump's revised travel ban (Executive Order 13780) on March 15, 2017, Trump denounced the ruling at a rally in Nashville, Tennessee. He called it 'an unprecedented judicial overreach' and said 'This ruling makes us look weak,' suggesting the judge had ruled for 'political reasons' rather than legal ones and vowing to fight the case 'all the way up to the Supreme Court.' The revised order had already narrowed the original travel ban -- removing Iraq from the list of covered countries and exempting current visa and green-card holders -- after courts struck down Trump's first version in January; it was blocked again on similar constitutional grounds within a day of taking effect. Legal commentators noted the rhetoric extended a pattern of framing adverse judicial rulings on executive power as illegitimate rather than engaging their legal reasoning.

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