Senior Obama administration officials including former secretary of state John Kerry have joined the battle between President Donald Trump and the US courts in a legal filing arguing the White House’s travel ban would not make the US safer.
The 10 former diplomats and intelligence officials waded into the dispute yesterday as the Trump administration raced to meet an afternoon deadline to explain its call for a court-ordered suspension of the ban to be overturned.
The ructions over the immigration clampdown have sparked warnings of an impending constitutional crisis after Mr Trump attacked the judge who halted the ban. The furore over the curbs has dominated the first weeks of his presidency.