A former prosecutor said President Donald Trump's social media outburst shows the Supreme Court "wounded" him Friday.
The high court blocked Trump from moving forward with deporting Venezuelan migrants under a rarely used 1700s-era law known as the Alien Enemies Act. The court extended its previous order temporarily blocking Trump's administration from deporting dozens of Venezuelan men held in North Texas.
Reacting to the ruling, Trump took to his Truth Social platform to lash out at the Supreme Court, which Trump's 'wounded statement' proves he's hurting: legal expert (edited)includes three justices he nominated.
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"The Supreme Court has just ruled that the worst murderers, drug dealers, gang members, and even those who are mentally insane, who came into our Country illegally, are not allowed to be forced out without going through a long, protracted, and expensive Legal Process, one that will take, possibly, many years for each person, and one that will allow these people to commit many crimes before they even see the inside of a Courthouse," Trump raged.
He continued, "The result of this decision will let more CRIMINALS pour into our Country, doing great harm to our cherished American public. It will also encourage other criminals to illegally enter our Country, wreaking havoc and bedlam wherever they go. The Supreme Court of the United States is not allowing me to do what I was elected to do. Sleepy Joe Biden allowed MILLIONS of Criminal Aliens to come into our Country without any 'PROCESS' but, in order to get them out of our Country, we have to go through a long and extended PROCESS. In any event, thank you to Justice Alito and Justice Thomas for attempting to protect our Country. This is a bad and dangerous day for America!"
CNN legal analyst Elie Honig told anchor Anderson Cooper the defeat represented a huge loss for Trump.
"This one hurts. This really hurts the Trump administration. And if you need any proof of that, look no further than the president's wounded statement after the fact," he said.
Honig called attention to sharp language deployed by the high court, usually made up of "ordinarily gentile justices."
"They are fed up," he added. "The justices are fed up with the way the Trump administration' been handling immigration," he said.
Additionally, he suggested seven of the justices appear to have lost trust in Trump's administration, as migrants haven't received sufficient notice of their looming removal, and officials have "played fast and loose" with the rules, shipping migrants out on planes in the middle of hearings.
"This was a really sharp setback," he concluded.
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