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That applies in our criminal justice system where the courts are playing their traditional role of protecting the rights of American citizens,
Barr argued on Fox News’s America’s Newsroom Even where it’s appropriate for the court to play its traditional role of safeguarding the liberties of American citizens, we have this phenomena of nation-wide injunctions where the lowest level judge, district judges, try to bind the entire nation and bind the president in their initial decision. That is not what we have meant by the judicial power under our Constitution,
There’s a pattern whereby these district court judges are trying to usurp the responsibility of the president in the national security area,
Barr said Tuesday on "America’s Newsroom." Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemy Act than has happened here,
The Constitution gives the president the power to make the judgments about how we deal with foreign nationals when we are animated by national security concerns,
said Barr, who served as Trump's attorney general in 2019 and 2020. If they [the U.S. Supreme Court] finally stand up and decide a case instead of hanging back from these decisions, I think it’ll come out the right way,
It can’t be right that one district judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks and leave it stopped for the years it takes to go through normal process,