The Patriot Post® · Friday Opinion

Today’s Editors’ Choice

• Erick Erickson: The Real Constitutional Crisis
• Michael Barone: James Comey Is the Latest Victim of the Clintons
• Ann Coulter: To Say ‘Stop Raping Me!’ in English, Press ‘1’ Now

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Opinion in Brief

Erick Erickson: “Federal judges have blocked President Trump’s inarguably constitutional travel restrictions merely because of statements candidate Trump made before becoming President Trump. Holding a president to campaign stump speeches has never been done before. In fact, President Obama campaigned for his health care plan declaring it not a tax, but the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act under the Constitution’s taxing powers. Had they used the president’s campaign statements, the legislation would have been ruled unconstitutional. In Virginia, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union argued before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that President Trump is the reason a travel ban is unconstitutional. Judge Niemeyer of the Fourth Circuit, a federal judge not willing to join the fever swamp, asked the ACLU’s lawyer, ‘We have a candidate who won the presidency, some candidate other than President Trump won the presidency and then chose to issue this particular order, with whatever counsel he took…. Do I understand that just in that circumstance, the executive order should be honored?’ The ACLU’s lawyer responded, ‘Yes, your honor, I think in that case, it could be constitutional.’ When the federal judiciary will not give the president of the United States due deference merely because they do not like that particular president, we do have a constitutional crisis. Unfortunately for the republic, this is a constitutional crisis the Democrats and media support and are enabling.”