Fox’s Jonathan Turley Compares Democrats’ Trips to El Salvador to ‘Sending the Rockettes’ There: No ‘Legal or Political Significance’

Fox News’ Jonathan Turley compared Democrats’ completed and planned trips to El Salvador to “sending the Rockettes there” on Wednesday, referencing the trend — begun by Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) — of Democratic lawmakers traveling to the Central American country in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Turley’s crack came after anchor Bret Baier observed that “a number of federal district judges are actively ruling” against the Trump administration and asked Turley if “the Supreme Court [would] have to weigh in more definitively.”

“Well, the docket is getting pretty crowded, and I think that, in cases like Garcia, by the way, it’s extremely unlikely that Garcia will ever be back in this country. And all of these Democratic senators going down to El Salvador — about as significant as sending the Rockettes to El Salvador,” replied Turley. “It’s not going to have any legal or even political significance for that case. For these other cases you mentioned, I think the administration is going to prevail on a number of those.”

He continued:

These are district court judges that actually have been reversed, in some cases on appeal. He’s going to lose some as well. But that’s something of the signature of Trump. I think he really learned that in real estate. He asks, he’s sort of a maximalist. He asks for the maximum possible authority and he often settles for something less than that. We have a court system that’s designed to make those decisions.

Now will they hear all these cases? No. But I think the court is trying to send a message to these lower courts. In the last decision with Garcia, they sent, I thought, a pretty clear message that the forum shopping has got to end. That you cannot have these challengers just picking what they think are the best judges to secure these types of national injunctions.

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