ACLU Lawyer Argues Trump Travel Ban Would Be Ok If Hillary Did It
You can’t make this stuff up. You really can’t.
Listen to ACLU attorney Omar Jadwat argue before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that Trump’s travel moratorium is unconstitutional, thus illegal. However, he was asked by Judge Paul Niemeyer if another candidate besides Trump had won the election, and issued the same exact order, would it be constitutional then? The obvious inference from Judge Niemeyer is that if Hillary Clinton had issued the same travel moratorium then Jadwat wouldn’t have any problem with it.
Jadwat confirmed that if anyone but Trump had issued the order, it would be constitutional, and legal.
Amazing.
“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,” Niemeyer said. “Do I understand that just in that circumstance, the executive order should be honored?”
“Yes, your honor, I think in that case, it could be constitutional,” Jadwat admitted.