This letter which is dated today is written from President Trumps attorney to judge wood who will be overseeing a very high stakes hearing tomorrow in new york about all those ver sensitive materials that were seized by the fbi in the raid of Michael Cohens office, of his hotel room and his home as well as the seizure of his phones and this is something that i dont think has ever been said before, at least not to to my knowledge on the news. The president of the United States is offering to make himself personally available for any review or screening of the evidence that the fbi seized of his lawyer. Its an unusual offer to say the least and with that let me get right to a well assembled panel. Senator richard blumenthal, former senator byron dorgen and Eugene Robinson from the the Washington Post which has broken some of these stories your colleagues have. Ill go Down The Line. Dealers choice on which aspects of this you want to speak to and, senator, your view of what appear to be a
discriminating at the entry side, not at the visa side. if you do that, you are giving the president the power to undo. he s just done it. he s undone the ban on nationality based discrimination, imposed country quotas of zero for these countries at the border. saying congress legislated against bans on national origin so trump can t set a quota of zero without breaking that law. the trump doj argued the president has his own authority to make judgments about security and make exceptions. the supreme court has generally been skeptical of using campaign rhetoric to decide a case. consider a less controversial example. remember candidate obama said on the campaign trail that obamacare was not a tax. the supreme court put it to the side and upheld the law as a tax. my point is not that the travel ban is obamacare. the justice department though is arguing that the supreme court doesn t usually hold campaign rhetoric against presidents.