President Trump said Tuesday that the court fight over his immigration travel ban could end up in the Supreme Court.
Trump told reporters that he’s going to take his fight to uphold his executive order “through the system.”
But he said he hopes the measure doesn’t have to go to the high court because he believes it was “common sense” and would keep America safe from terrorists.
He maintained that some people with “the wrong intentions” are trying to “take a lot of our powers away.”
During a meeting with county sheriffs, the president also said more Americans support his policies than those who are protesting the executive order.
Trump’s order temporarily halted the entire US refugee program and banned immigrants to the US from seven majority Muslim countries.
Over the weekend, Seattle Federal Judge James Robart temporarily blocked the order, sparking harsh criticism from the president of both the judge and his decision.
The Justice Department on Monday filed documents with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, which will hear oral arguments at 6 p.m. New York time Tuesday from the administration and lawyers for the plaintiffs who sued to have the order overturned.
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