President Donald Trump may want to consider ignoring the appeals court judges who upheld a lower court ruling that blocks his executive order banning immigrants from seven mainly Muslim countries, Rep. Tom Tancredo tells Newsmax TV.
"He should perhaps ignore them. Ignore them," Tancredo, a Colorado Republican said Monday to Steve Malzberg on "America Talks Live."
"The Constitution provides for three co-equal branches of government. It does not provide for a supreme branch of government. The courts have taken it upon themselves … to declare itself the supreme law of the land.
"Thomas Jefferson said over and over again that we could not allow the Supreme Court to be the despotic body of the land … Nobody takes an oath to the court or to the president or to the Congress or anybody else. You take it to one thing – the Constitution."
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Last Thursday, the three-judge Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals based in San Francisco ruled unanimously that it would not block a lower court ruling that suspended Trump's executive order and allowed previously barred travelers to enter the U.S.
Tancredo told Malzberg: "We should consider the fact that this court's opinion is just that. It is an opinion."
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