While lashing out at the US court system as "slow and political", he also hammered his own administration for the "watered down" and "politically correct" version of his January 27 executive order that originally restricted citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the USA and gave wider berth to the types of visas that could be restricted.
In a series of early morning tweets, Mr Trump urged the Justice Department to ask for an "expedited hearing" at the high court and seek a "much tougher version" of the order temporarily blocking entry to the USA from half-a-dozen majority Muslim countries.
"That's right, we need a TRAVEL BAN for certain risky countries, not some politically correct term that won't help us protect our people!", Trump tweeted.
First, Rove noted, Trump tweeted that the effort to halt people coming into the country was a "travel ban", and that is something his own lawyers at the Justice Department have been taking care to avoid saying, instead using the term "pause".
Over the weekend, the ACLU quoted another tweet Trump wrote in reaction to the London attack in which he said "we need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!"
What appears to be an intriguing development in the Morning Joe-fueled saga regarding Kellyanne Conway's loyalty to Donald Trump occurred when her husband, lawyer George Conway, trolled the president on Monday.
"In any event we are EXTREME VETTING people coming into the United States in order to help keep our country safe".
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In subsequent years, the penalty is even harsher, a "repeater tax" to encourage teams to stay under the salary cap. The league's best three-point marksman will be eligible for a five-year deal worth an estimated $207 million.
Outside the courts, the travel ban is a hot political issue.
"The fact is, it's been the same since the beginning, from the first executive order to the second executive order". He seemed to criticize the Justice Department for not seeking a "much tougher version".
"At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is 'no reason to be alarmed!"
One of the most reliable patterns of Donald Trump's presidency may be his ability to undercut his own aides - even mere hours after they attempted to defend him.
Opponents of the executive orders have argued - so far successfully - that the restrictions amount to the "Muslim ban" that Trump originally proposed during his campaign. Instead, they wrapped it in "vetting system" rhetoric.
"I don't think from a national security encounter terrorism perspective, it gets at the problem", she said on CNN's New Day.
The basis of the legal challenges to Trump's executive orders is the argument that his executive order is really an effort to exclude Muslims from the USA on religious grounds, and is therefore a violation of the First Amendment.
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