On the “George Conway Explains It All (To Sarah Longwell)” podcast, Weissmann — who was sitting in for conservative legal professional George Conway — was requested by longtime GOP strategist Longwell if the White Home would abide by such a call.
His response was blunt: “No.”
“There’s not a snowball’s probability in hell that this administration goes to say {that a} choice in San Francisco goes to bind them,” Weissmann stated, referring to a federal decide in San Francisco’s present weighing of whether or not Trump’s White Home violated federal legislation when he deployed Nationwide Guard models to Los Angeles to deal with protests over immigration raids.
Weissmann stated that “regular” Republican and Democratic administrations, even when they disagreed with a district court docket choice, would usually “put issues on maintain and look forward to an attraction” and “have respect for the choice absent some extraordinary circumstance.”
However, he cautioned, “that isn’t what’s occurring right here.”
As an alternative, Weissmann argued, it’s a part of a wider sample from the Trump administration. “We see it within the immigration context, the place you see simply a lot end-running round district courts and courts of appeals and admittedly, I believe, the Supreme Court docket.”
The Trump White Home is basically saying, “We’re going to proceed till we’re instructed to cease,” Weissmann added. “And albeit, as many judges have identified, even after they’re instructed to cease, judges are upset as a result of they nonetheless go ahead in a type of, ‘What are you going to do about it?’”
Watch from the 15-minute mark right here:
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