On CNN's “Newsnight” on Monday, CNN political contributor Scott Jennings responded to claim that President Donald Trump's administration had somehow taken away the US Constitution with his policy approach.
Jennings argued that the so-called “constitutional crisis” was not the cause of the federal judge trying to stop him.
He called it a continuation of “laws against Trump.”
“Let's read the tweets so that people understand,” host Abby Phillip said. “He wrote this on Sunday. If a judge attempts to tell the general how to carry out a military operation, it is illegal. “The Attorney General on how a judge uses his discretion as a prosecutor. If you try to order it, it is also illegal. Judges are not permitted to control the legitimate power of executives. Although legitimate words do a lot of work here, we I know judges will start to say whether executives are complying with the law, and that has been the case for decades, hundreds of years.”
“It's different to saying whether you are complying with the law and how these individual district court judges effectively set a broad range of federal policies that are specifically reserved for the President of the United States. I think there is,” Jennings replied. “We have a constitutional crisis and I think it's caused by these judges. They don't teach us how to spend money. They set broad federal policies. Not here to do. It's the job of the president elected by the people. These judges are supposed to solve a modest particular problem, not a policy setting. Vance thinks he's right. I think Trump has a point, and these judges don't want to continue the law against Trump any more.”
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