President Donald Trump is threatening to break up the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which blocked his executive order banning travel from several nations with large Muslim populations and restricted the acceptance of refugees. 

Asked by the Washington Examiner if he had considered proposals to split the court, Trump replied: "Absolutely, I have." 

"There are many people that want to break up the 9th Circuit. It's outrageous," Trump told the website. "Everybody immediately runs to the 9th Circuit. And we have a big country. We have lots of other locations. But they immediately run to the 9th Circuit. Because they know that's like, semi-automatic."

Trump claimed that those who oppose him are "shopping" for sympathetic judges by going to the 9th Circuit, where 18 of the 25 jurists were appointed by Democratic presidents.