Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Denounces President’s Criticism of U.S. District Judge and Attack on Independence of Federal Judiciary
Style Magazine Newswire | 2/7/2017, 10:28 a.m.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a senior member of the House Committees on Judiciary and Homeland Security and Ranking Member of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations, released the following statement regarding the President’s criticism of U.S. District Judge James Robart for issuing a temporary restraining order enjoining enforcement of the President’s Muslim Ban:
“It is unconscionable that the President has disparaged the integrity and fidelity of a sitting federal judge simply because he does not agree with one of the judge’s rulings. An independent judiciary is one of the crown jewels of American democracy. Attacking the legitimacy of the judicial branch, a co-equal branch of government under our Constitution, does not make us safer or freer, and is not consistent with the oath the President took to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.”
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is a Democrat from Texas’s 18th Congressional District. She is a senior member of the House Committees on Judiciary and Homeland Security and is a Ranking Member of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations.
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