TRUMP DOUBLES DOWN: I'm calling it what it is 'a TRAVEL BAN'
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"People, the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever they want, but I am calling it what we need and what it is, a TRAVEL BAN!," Trump tweeted.
"The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to S.C.," the president continued, referring to a new version of the policy that has been referred to the Supreme Court.
"The Justice Dept. should ask for an expedited hearing of the watered down Travel Ban before the Supreme Court - & seek much tougher version!," Trump tweeted.
The Department of Justice's petition asks the high court's nine-justice panel to rule on the legality of Trump's order. In a May ruling halting the order, the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals argued that the travel ban "drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimination."
The Trump administration had vowed to take the case to the Supreme Court since the first of two versions of Trump's executive order on travel was slapped down by the San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in February.
The president used similar language over the weekend, tweeting after the Saturday night attacks in London.
"We need to be smart, vigilant and tough. We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety," Trump tweeted.
Bryan Logan contributed reporting to this story.
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