Feinstein: ‘The president is not a dictator’
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said the U.S. Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether President Donald Trump exceeded his authority by banning refugees and immigration from some majority-Muslim countries.
“The president is not a dictator,” the California Democrat told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.” “The framers of our Constitution wanted a strong Congress for the very reason that most of these kinds of things should be done within the scope of lawmaking. This is done within the scope of executive power.”
“I have no doubt that it will go to the Supreme Court and probably some judgment will be made whether this president has exceeded his authority or not,” she added.
Early Sunday morning, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to overturn a Seattle federal judge’s temporary halt to Trump’s travel ban. On Saturday, Trump attacked that judge, a George W. Bush appointee, calling him a “so-called judge.”