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Pence Defends Trump’s Judge Attacks

Says president has the right to “criticize.”

Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday said President Donald Trump has the right to “criticize the other two branches of government,” after the president hurled personal attacks at Judge James Robart—at one point referring to him as a “so-called judge.” Robart issued a ruling on Friday that halted Trump’s executive order that banned foreign nationals traveling from seven Muslim-majority countries. “The judge’s actions in this case, making decisions about American foreign policy and national security, it’s just very frustrating to the president, to our whole administration, to millions of Americans who want to see judges that will uphold the law and recognize the authority the president of the United States has under the Constitution to manage who comes into this country,” Pence said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”