Judges warn Trump risks public perception of lawlessness in his fight with courts

Judges warn Trump risks public perception of lawlessness in his fight with courts

Judges warn Trump risks public perception of lawlessness in his fight with courts
NEW YORK, April 17 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court urged the Trump administration on Thursday to back off from its escalating confrontation with the judiciary while upholding a judge's order to facilitate the return of a man wrongly deported to El Salvador.
"The executive will lose much from a public perception of its lawlessness," U.S. Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson wrote on behalf of a three-judge panel. The executive branch in the U.S. Constitution refers to the president.