Executive Order Itself News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

A way that prevents this kind of discriminatory ban, and reduces the discretion that the supreme court emphasized. it deferred to him on national security grounds. they basically said, we don't like his statements. they contradict the meaning and vls of the constitution, but he has very broad discretion. that's what needs to be limited. >> stay with us. i want to bring in jeffrey toobin who is here with me as well. how do y see this ruling by the supreme court today? >> the majority looked at this as a case about the presidency, about the power of all presidents. and treated this executive ord...

Conflicted about the president's past statements about the muslim faith and muslims specifically, that the decision he finally came down, speaking for the majority, that in my mind, it was a little like a murder case, a dna murder case, where the prosecutor utilizes the weapon as the principle point of evidence and says, yeah, we have dna, but it's not necessarily, you know, going to be used here. was i wrong? >> no, i think you're right. i think justice roberts was clearly very troubled by the rhetoric. he goes toreat pains to give this lengthy history lesson of all of the things that prior p...

It says the executive order was issued with a purpose to disfavor of particular religion despite the neutral purpose, we are inferring the motive of the people who wrote it based on i don't know, news stories, clairvoyance, our own deep insight into human nature. how exactly what they know that? that's kind of a reach, no? >> not at all. unfortunately the truth is there is an incredibly long trail of evidence from the president himself when he was a candidate, he pledged that one of the he thinks he would do as president was to enact a muslim ban. we look at all of this evidence on the campaig...

You're saying it's these seven countries, but what about afghanistan or pakistanover f saudi arabia or a number of other countries? >>. >> places where terrorists have come from and done harm to the united states. >> the point is these nations, these countries were named from the obama administration and the reason it's being brought right now are because of the false accusations of religion and not terror. that's why it's being addressed at this point. >> that is very poorly written. it was very poorly written because in the executive order itself, it says christians from these nations can be...

Mid-march. and a lot of the case had to do with whether it's based on religious discrimination. the challengers claim that it was. they said all you have to do is look at all the statements that donald trump made during the campaign, especially when he called basically for a ban on muslim immigration. so, the legal issue here, stephanie, was do those statements by the candidate count? the government said no. the only thing that matters is what is in the executive order itself, and statements the president made about the importance of this order to national security, but the appeals court said,...