Tonight. This is one of the backward and nasty Executive Orders the president has issued. Also today thousands of antiabortion protesters gathered in washington for the annual march for life. Mike pence told the crowd the president would announce a Supreme Court nominee soon and trump hinted strongly at the person hes choosing. The person i pick will be a big, big i think people are going to love it. I think evangelicals, christians will love my pick. And well be represented very fairly. Jeff zeleny begins our coverage tonight out front at the white house. Trump signing a flurry of Executive Orders this week, up to 14, but these on immigration, do they really have teeth . Reporter indeed they do. The ones that he signed late today, they do sort of play out exactly what he talked about in the campaign, Extreme Vetting. It should come as no surprise, but they are going at the heart
of refugees coming here to the country, particularly syrian refugees. The white house just moments ago actu
this was nancy de allesandro frm baltimore, not nancy pelosi. she comes from a very, very anchored and focused political family. they take their public service very seriously. and most importantly, they take their faith tradition very seriously. and so that was a personal affront to her in that regard when he used that term, when mr. rosen used that term. she wanted to make it very clear, don t mess with me when it comes to my faith, don t second-guess my intentions. she s been very clear from the very beginning this is not about a personal vendetta against the president, this is not about hating the president. you know, i love these republicans now who, you know, are claiming how much democrats hate president trump. did they check that hate towards barack obama? because i was in those rooms, all right? so this cuts both ways and she
say they will not agree to this, any path the president can take that doesn t end up as a fight in the courts or just like the travel ban? it is similar to the travel ban. when the president declares an emergency, the courts look at donald trump s reasoning behind that travel ban. and the supreme court regardless of who is president following decades of presidential jurisprudence that don t second-guess the president on national security issues, if the president declares emergency i would be surprised if courts, the supreme court second-guessed his determination that ends the immigration issue on the southern border. heather: would they begin work on the wall when that was happening? we would try to get an injunction like the travel ban.
have done something and created an opportunity for somebody who may be genuinely inclined to breach the law. last word to the professor. if they wanted to make the ban lawful and constitutional, how would they change it? it was a poorly crafted executive order and it was a terrible roll-out. but i still think that the law favors the administration once you get to the merits. i don t agree with many of those, some of those cases. but the courts have been highly differential to the president and they generally don t second guess. i think the people also have to acknowledge that the trump administration here is making the identical argument to the obama administration. the obama administration argued the president s judgment on administration was largely unreviewable. he argued that he could refuse, ordered the failure to enforce immigration laws. but the arguments were very,
if they wanted to make the ban lawful and constitutional, how would they change it? it was a poorly crafted executive order and it was a terrible roll-out. but i still think that the law favors the administration once you get to the merits. i don t agree with many of those, some of those cases. but the courts have been highly differential to the president and they generally don t second guess. i think the people also have to acknowledge that the trump administration here is making the identical argument to the obama administration. the obama administration argued the president s judgment on administration was largely unreviewable. he argued that he could refuse, ordered the failure to enforce immigration laws. but the arguments were very, very similar. and for all the democrats objecting now, i didn t hear a peep of objection from them when just last year these arguments were being made by the same