Trump keeps trying to claim new authority over immigration policy. Courts keep telling him he can’t.<\/b>
\nTwo days after the midterm elections, the Trump administration announced new rules in which Donald Trump claimed vast new powers to block asylum seekers. The president invoked broad national security powers, which appeared to exist outside any existing legal framework, in a highly provocative directive.
It was obvious to everyone that the litigation challenging the policy would be fierce. What we didn\u2019t know was how quickly Trump\u2019s policy would be blocked.
\u201cWhatever the scope of the President\u2019s authority, he may not rewrite the immigration laws to impose a condition that Congress has expressly forbidden,\u201d Tigar, an Obama nominee, wrote in his restraining order .
It\u2019s the latest in a series of court failures for the Trump administration, especially on the issue of immigration. Judges have also rejected Trump\u2019s executive order on \u201csanctuary cities\u201d and his efforts to deny DACA protections to Dreamers, and in September, a federal court ordered the administration to end its \u201czero tolerance\u201d policy that separated migrant parents and their children.
Similarly, Trump has also lost recent court fights over the Keystone XL Pipeline, press access to the White House, and the Emoluments Clause .
There\u2019s a reason Republicans have scrambled to overhaul the federal judiciary and move the courts sharply to the right: it\u2019s the branch of government that keeps preventing the Trump White House from ignoring existing laws.<\/p>\n

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