White House counsel Kellyanne Conway punched back at critics of President Trump’s following the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ Thursday evening ruling against the administration.
Conway, currently embattled in her own PR crisis after possibly breaching federal ethics rules, took on Hillary Clinton first. The former 2016 Democratic presidential nominee tweeted “3-0” following the court’s ruling, a nod to the three judges who ruled unanimously in favor of Washington state’s lawsuit.
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Conway, following the example of her boss, responded to a group she has referred to as “haters” by releasing barbs over social media.
“PA, WI, MI,” Conway retweeted with Clinton’s message below, a reference to the three blue states that Trump won in the election, sending Clinton into retirement.
Then Conway shared a bit of information about the number of times the courts ruled against former President Barack Obama’s administration, calling it “context” to Thursday’s court decision.
“The Supreme Court unanimously overruled the Obama admin in 44 separate cases. Overall, Obama lost 55% of the time,” Federalist cofounder Sean Davis wrote on Twitter and Conway shared.
Following the court ruling, Trump tweeted, “SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!”
President Trump promised additional legal action from his Justice Department on Thursday evening after the 9th Circuit denied his request to reinstate his ban on immigration from seven countries.
Washington state was one of a handful of states to sue the administration for the president’s executive order to temporarily suspend immigration from Somalia, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Syria, Libya and Yemen. Last Friday, Seattle-based U.S. District Judge James Robart ruled in favor of a lawsuit by the state’s attorney general Bob Ferguson, who took action on certain provisions in the executive action. Robart’s restraining order was granted on a national level and took effect immediately.
Justice lawyers asked the San Francisco-based appeals court to reinstate Trump’s ban on refugees and asylum seekers from those seven countries. The decree is set to expire 90 days from its start date on Jan. 27. On Tuesday evening, Justice Department attorneys and Washington state representatives argued the case in an hour-long phone hearing before the appeals court.
