Pool/Getty ImagesLegal experts were taken back by the level of potential self-sabotage that President Donald Trump committed by tweeting extensively Monday about the controversial travel ban currently blocked by the courts. Trump, following the London terror attacks over the weekend, tweeted on Monday: "I am calling it what we need and what it is, a TRAVEL BAN!" He then took aim at his own Justice Department, saying it "should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version" it will likely soon be arguing in favor of before the Supreme Court. He also tweeted that the DOJ "should ask for an expedited hearing of the watered down Travel Ban before the Supreme Court — & seek much tougher version!" And he called the judicial system "slow and political." Both supporters and opponents of the president's travel ban were stunned by what they saw as comments that could hurt the DOJ's defense of the executive order. Neal Katyal, the former acting solicitor general arguing against the ban in court, tweeted a screenshot of Trump's Monday morning tweets, commenting that it's "kinda odd to have the defendant in Hawaii v.

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