
And that's something he can't do and has never been done contrary to. But what he's doing here is designating all individuals from now six countries, Muslim majority countries, as effectively terrorist threats. The president can designate certain individuals as having a potential terrorist threat. And how much harder is this court fight for you guys this time around, green cardholders aren't included, legal residents aren't included?ĪNDRE SEGURA, ACLU STAFF ATTORNEY: To be clear on Dan's point, he's wrong about the statutory authority.

And you've got six instead of seven, yes, they're Muslim majority countries. The problem with the first one, you can't discriminate where someone is coming from or the religious minority part. He's saying, look, statute 1182 gives the president sweeping authority on issues of immigration which it does indeed. I'm sorry we don't have more time for you. POPPY HARLOW, CNN ANCHOR: We're tight on time. And both Congress and the president's authority are at their highest ebb in the drafting of this resolution to keep us safe. This goes to the very essence of sovereignty, what a nation is.
But in the end, if the Hawaii representatives, if the state of Hawaii's arguments were to prevail up to the Supreme Court, it would turn the entire statutory basis of our entire immigration law on its head and suddenly hamstring Congress and the president from restricting immigration on emergency basis for a whole range of reasons that have never considered by a federal court before.

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