WH policy adviser: Trump ‘pursuing all options’ on travel ban

President Trump is “pursuing all options” in the wake of an appeals court decision against his extreme vetting order, White House policy adviser Stephen Miller said Sunday, arguing the three-judge panel got it all wrong.

“The president’s powers here are beyond question,” Mr. Miller told Fox News Sunday.
California’s 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld a restraining order against Mr. Trump’s decision to temporarily halt refuge programs and block migrants from seven predominantly Muslim nations — Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Iran, Sudan, Libya and Yemen — from entering the U.S. until stronger vetting could be implemented
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The president is considering a new executive order on immigration as early as Monday, in response to the courts halting his earlier move.
Mr. Miller said the president has multiple options, including seeking an emergency stay before the Supreme Court, petitioning for a review by a fuller slate of judges on the 9th Circuit or demanding a trial on the merits at the district court level.

Mr. Miller said judges who’ve opposed the president so far are guilty of overreaching.“The bottom line is is that we are pursuing every single possible action to keep our country safe from terrorism,” Mr. Miller told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And I also want to be clear, we’ve heard a lot of talk about how all the branches of government are equal. That’s the point. They are equal. There’s no such thing as judicial supremacy. What the judges did both at the ninth and at the district level was to take power for themselves that belong squarely in the hands of the president of the United States.”

Mr. Trump has used Twitter to lash out at judges who’ve opposed his order, suggesting they would be responsible for any terror attacks that occur while his extreme vetting program is on ice.
On Sunday, Mr. Trump said 72 percent of refugees admitted into the U.S. during the “COURT BREAKDOWN” since Feb. 3 are from the seven countries on his ban list.

Sen. Ben Cardin, Maryland Democrat, said the U.S. should be more targeted in its anti-terrorism efforts. For instance, it could focus on people who might self-radicalize instead of freezing out refugees or imposing a blanket ban on specific nations, saying it gives Islamic radical groups another recruiting tool.

“We really need to have a smart policy, and we already have extreme vetting for refugees particularly,” Mr. Cardin told “Fox News Sunday.”