Why Donald Trump Bears Blame for Making America Less Safe
The president’s attack on a federal judge and the “court system" add to his short-sighted approach to protecting the United States.
On Sunday, President Trump declared that “if something happens”—the “something” in question, implicitly, being an Islamist terrorist attack—Americans should blame the “court system” and James Robart, the federal judge who temporarily stopped the Trump administration from enforcing its 90-day ban on people from seven majority-Muslim countries.
To imply that federal judges should be blamed for the consequences of following the law, or that the “court system” makes America unsafe, shows alarming contempt for the United States Constitution. To see a president engage in preemptive blame shifting
