Trump Promotes Original ‘Travel Ban,’ Eroding His Legal Case
They urged the justices to ignore incendiary statements from Mr. Trump during the presidential campaign, including a call for a "Muslim ban." The court should focus instead on the text of the revised executive order
and statements from Mr. Trump after he had taken the inaugural oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution," the briefs said.
In a series of Twitter posts Monday morning, Mr. Trump may have irretrievably undermined his lawyers’ efforts to persuade the Supreme
Court to reinstate his executive order limiting travel from six predominantly Muslim countries, according to legal experts.
In March, after a Federal District Court in Hawaii blocked the revised version, Mr. Trump complained
that it was only "a watered-down version of the first order" and told a rally of supporters that "I think we ought to go back to the first one and go all the way" to the Supreme Court, "which is what I wanted to do in the first place." Follow Adam Liptak on Twitter at @adamliptak and Peter Baker at @peterbakernyt.
Referring to the mainstream media, Mr. Trump added: "MSM is working hard to sell it!" The revised executive order, which the president criticized on Monday, took Iraq off the list of countries
that would be affected and made clear that the restrictions did not apply to those who held green cards or valid visas.
that Blinding the courts to a reality that everyone else is aware of is never an attractive position,
but is especially problematic when you have to ignore in real time what’s being said by the president of the United States.
" Mr. Trump wrote. that People, the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever they want,
but I am calling it what we need and what it is, a TRAVEL BAN!
