US President Donald Trump apparently does not feel bound by the country’s constitution. Asked whether he believed he has to “uphold the Constitution,” he told NBC News in an interview: “I don’t know.”
There is legal opposition to countless decisions made by Trump in the first three months of his second term, particularly against his immigration policy.
The president has repeatedly been confronted with the question of whether he will abide by court rulings in all cases.
“I have brilliant lawyers that work for me, and they are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said,” Trump said in the interview with NBC’s Meet the Press.
Trump complained that US courts were preventing him from deporting criminal migrants. He spoke of “thousands of people” some of whom he described as “murderers and some drug dealers and some of the worst people on Earth.”
“I was elected to get them the hell out of here, and the courts are holding me from doing it,” Trump claimed. He argued that not every case can be heard individually in court.
The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man from the US state of Maryland who comes from El Salvador and was deported there a few weeks ago, is causing a stir.
The US government admitted an “administrative error” in the case, but at the same time reiterated the accusation that the man was a gang member – which the man denies.
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to return the man. The case has since been referred to the US Supreme Court. Since then, there has been legal wrangling over what should happen next. The US government has so far made no move to bring the man back to the United States.
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