because all of these have become politicized over the years. senator cotton, this point of this one case which i decided to focus on, it s an area of law, as you know, for many years, immigration law, that i think is been absolutely rasterized by activists and sadly judges. what does this tell us about her judicial philosophy, which she decided she wasn t going to address today? laura, the case tells us that judge jackson is a far left activist. she always has been, just because she put on a black robe ten years ago, she didn t change. as you outline, she took it immigration law that removed all jurisdiction from the federal courts, removal of the trump administration acted on that long she still reviewed it and she still enjoyed the regulation nationwide. her court of appeals, one of the more liberal court of appeals said that it was a blatant
endorsing the removal of, this the islamist, those who want to impose islamophobia laws, blasphemy laws. we have to be careful who are these sort of common allies in offense if you will because they will say oh, don t offend christianity and oh, by the way. let the saudis and others torture people for criticizing islam. muslims like me get tortured imprisoned and otherwise. and they say that our work is similar to the denigration of the cross and others so we have to be careful. sometimes the true defense of expression and freedom of religion is defending those things that we find most offensive. ainsley: rabbi, even if it is allowed in israel freedom of religion and freedom to express whatever you believe through art, if it s offensive, to a big group of people. should it remain up or should they take it down? let s remember, first of all, ronald mcdonald is not kosher, i don t know what he is doing up in israel. jokes aside we jews know what it is like to feel religiously alien nat
i think he s setting himself up to say, it s not my fault, it s the republicans fault and we need to make big changes in the next election to bring in the republicans i need into office so they ll advance the agenda he ran on. a lot of these republicans in the senate don t want to speak up because they ll face a lot of pressure from the right. steve bannon is ratcheting up to take on every single senator running next year. they re caught between a rock and a hard place because they either have to alienate their base and face political consequences or speak out against the sitting president. those are not good options if you re a sitting senator. let s talk immigration for a moment. the white house last night putting out its demands, if you will, for a daca fix. certain to gain zero democratic votes. here s the list in part. construction of a southern border wall. amend the law to allow removal of, quote, unaccompanied allen children. block some grants for sanctuary
about what i ve read about what s happening at dhs. i want to ask you about immigration, both in your capacity as secretary of department of homeland security, but also as former governor of arizona. you dealt with the issue of undocumented immigrants illegally crossing the border all the time. president trump has vowed to more strictly enforce laws on the books and he says he s just following the lead of the obama administration, as you know. i m sure you heard a lot of complaints about it. president obama authorized the removal of, in total, more than 3 million undocumented immigrants. is the trump administration wrong to say that they are just following the lead of the previous president? yes, they are. and they re wrong in several respects. the most important is the notion of who should be removed and the priorities for removal. under president obama, we focused on those who had committed serious felonies, had