The President Learns About Separation of Powers
And he doesn’t like it.
by Russell Berman
Jan 13, 2019
2 minutes
Editor’s Note: This article is one of 50 in a series about Trump's first two years as president.
It took all of two weeks for President Donald Trump to mount his first verbal assault on the federal judiciary. In early February 2017, a federal judge in Seattle, James Robart, the travel ban the Trump administration had hastily implemented a week earlier based early on a Saturday morning, “which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!”
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