Mike Pence backs up Trump regarding criticism against federal judge

Mike Pence has stood with US President Donald Trump about the latter's recent remarks on a federal judge who blocked his executive order on immigration. He has pointed out that Trump “has every right to criticise the other two branches of government” and that the administration's latest executive order on immigration shall prevail in the court system.

Pence said he thinks it is a new thing for Americans to not only understand their president’s mind, but also on how he feels about things. “He expresses himself in a unique way,” Pence said on NBC.

Trump’s latest executive order on immigration is facing a number of different lawsuits but Pence said he is “very confident” that the court system will be in favour of the administration. The vice president has also defended the order's construction and rollout, saying it was not done at a fast pace. One of the lawsuits that the executive order is facing is one issued by the Council on American–Islamic Relations (Cair), claiming the travel ban violates the first amendment of the constitution, which ensures that there should be no prohibition on the free exercise of religion.

Pence has pointed out that it is a very dangerous world. “The reality is there the people around the globe who have inspired violence here in the homeland,” he explained.

The new Republican president has slammed US District Judge James Robart through a series of tweets. In one of his tweets, he said he just could not believe that a judge would put the United States in such peril. “If something happens blame him and court system,” he wrote.

In another tweet, Trump has clarified that he has instructed Homeland Security to check people entering America very carefully but the court is making it difficult. He also tweeted that the judge opens up the country to potential terrorists.

Trump’s tweets came after Robart, a federal judge in Seattle, blocked the president’s executive order banning citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US. The order titled “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry to the United States” also indefinitely bans refugees fleeing from Syria.

On a weekend interview with Fox News, Trump said he respects Russian President Vladimir Putin, triggering speculations that the former is trying to draw a moral equivalency between the United States and Russia. The vice president has debunked this idea. Instead, Pence explained that his boss is interested in building a relationship with Putin because it would “be a good thing for the world.”