washington a federal appeals court on thursday rejected president donald trumps efforts to reinstate a ban on travel to the us from seven muslimmajority nations setting the stage for an epic and apex faceoff between the executive and judiciary over their respective constitutional duties powers and responsibilitiessee you in court the security of our nation is at stake the president tweeted in all caps the online equivalent of shouting just minutes after the court ruling evidently outraged at the decision and indicating he will take the matter up to the supreme court he later called it a disgraceful decisiontrumps aides and supporters vent their anger at the ruling arguing that the judiciary should not be secondguessing sensitive national security decisions of the president republican senator tom cotton called the san franciscobased ninth circuit the most notoriously leftwing court in america and the most reversed court at the supreme court while expressing confidence that administrations position will ultimately prevailtrumps critics and those opposed to unbridled executive powers and random travel strictures celebrated the ruling this was a good day for our system of checks and balances said democratic senator bernie sanders adding a president who respected the constitutions separation of powers would not have insulted a so called judge he disagreed with or tried to bully a federal appeals court with taunts on twitterhillary clinton tweeted a short and snarky 30 an apparent reference to the unanimous verdict of the threejudge bench including one republican appointee that in turn invited from a trump supporter the scalding repartee 02 2008 2016 referring to her two presidential election defeatsothers ridiculed the president for saying see you in court even though he had lost twice in court weve been saying this for a while taunted the american civil liberties union one popular internet meme showed a cartoon of lady justice stepping protectively in front of lady liberty saying i got this as she wards off an attacking trumpthe partisanship over the issue is expected to heighten in the coming weeks as the trump administration weighs taking the issue up to the supreme court but the apex court is currently deadlocked at 44 between liberal and conservative judges and legal experts say in the event of a tie the ruling of the appeals court will standcompounding the problem trumps nominee for the vacant ninth slot judge neil gorsuch has reportedly expressed disapproval of the presidents attacks against the judiciary in meetings with senators trump and his aides have disputed such reports but the account has been confirmed by lawmakers and staffers who are now being dubbed obama lackeys by the new regimethe same charge surrounds other leaks from the trump white house including accounts of the presidents phone call with russian leader vladimir putin in which he reportedly asked aides midconversation for explanation about the new start agreement before denouncing it as bad for the united statestrump supporters maintain the leaks of purported flubs by the white house is a concerted attempt to