Judicial overreach should not be met with executive overreach

Published February 14, 2017 12:00am ET



Regardless of who you voted for in this election, we must look at the work of President Trump and judge it based on its merits. We can’t reject everything based on it being from Trump, but we can’t defend everything either. He isn’t a saint, and his actions are not above reproach.

Byron York laid out the case for the legality of Trump’s travel ban executive order, and this is fine. He made a point based on a dispassionate assessment of the facts, not a blind commitment to the creed. Trump’s challenge to a judge legislating from the bench is quite worthwhile.

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