George Washington University law professor and Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley says the Trump Administration will likely prevail in most of the court cases challenging his right to deport illegal criminal gang members.
Turley spoke with Fox News’ Bill Hemmer Thursday morning.
“I think there’s a legitimate complaint here. It’s like having a car where every passenger is pressing the emergency break,” Turley said. “It’s pretty hard to drive that car. And what you have here are judges that are imposing national injunctions which the Supreme Court, including liberal justices like Justice [Elena] Kagan have objected to. She said ‘this is madness’ that you have all of these trial judges who are imposing national injunctions. Congress is looking at legislation to curtail the ability of lower court judges to do precisely that. I think there’s merit to that, I think that the Trump administration is likely to win.”
“I also think the Trump administration is likely to prevail in most of these cases. I think that federal judges have overextended themselves, they have intruded into areas of Article II, which is presidential authority,” Turley added.
President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 in mid-March to deport over 200 members of Tren de Agua, a Venezuelan criminal gang, to CECOT prison in El Salvador — one of the worst prisons on earth.
Watch Turley’s analysis above.
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