Talked to his Attorney General yet. Thats right. Reporter i had a chance to catch up with kellyannec conway. I asked her whether or not the president views this decision as some sort of set back or defeat. She didnt exactly answer that question, but heres what she had to say. This is a defeat . Do you see this as a setback . He sees it as the statute provides a president with great latitude and authority to protect the citizens and protect the Nations National security. This was not argued on the merits. Now that well have an opportunity to argue on the merits, we look forward to doing that. I think his tweet was perfect when he said, well see you in court. There you go. Some confidence being expressed by Kellyanne Conway at the white
house. Not a lot new in terms of arguments being laid out by the white house in response to this, just the very tough talk that were going to see you in court. That is not exactly going to win the day at the Supreme Court. I asked Kellyanne Conway, is thi
those are affected, the students, faculty, scholars in the state of washington affected by this executive order were perfectly free and capable of bringing their own lawsuit should they have wisheded to do so so to extend standing to an institution like the state of washington is unprecedented not supported by supreme court precedent. i do think that would eventually be overturned. going back to the merits of this case, assume even strict scrutiny applies to this executive order because we believe there s some sort of national origin discrimination or discrimination based on religion, you would ask yourself first, is there a compelling government interest. that here is national security. that s been accepted as a compelling government interest for a very long time now. then you d ask yourself about narrow tailoring. this executive order is narrowly tailored to the seven countries identified be i the previous administration and congress as po posing significant national