Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsTrump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status White House officials voted by show of hands on 2018 family separations: report MORE on Friday accused some judges of trying “to advance an agenda” with their rulings.

“I think we have a number of judges in the country that have departed a bit too far from enforcing the law as written and using the law to advance an agenda that they may have personally,” he said on “CBS This Morning.”

Sessions singled out the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, saying it “has been criticized for that tendency more than any other circuit.”

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“The main thing is you appoint judges and confirm judges to the 9th Circuit that will be responsible and more restrained in their actions,” he said.

“You’re not prohibited from saying, ‘I disagree with what you’re doing,’ ” Sessions added. “[But] else you’ve created a superior branch of government. We have three.”

President Trump and top administration officials have blasted the 9th Circuit, which has blocked a number of Trump's controversial executive orders.

The circuit court earlier this year halted his order barring immigration from certain Muslim-majority nations and banning all Syrian refugees from the U.S.

Trump said Wednesday he has “absolutely” considered proposals to break up the 9th Circuit. He also slammed what he called its “ridiculous rulings” against him.

“There are many people that want to break up the 9th Circuit,” he said, accusing people of going “judge shopping” there. “It’s outrageous.”

“Everybody immediately runs to the 9th Circuit,” Trump said about cases against his administration. “Because they know, that’s like, semi-automatic.”

Trump also railed against the 9th Circuit earlier Wednesday after a district court judge in San Francisco, but not the appeals court, blocked his order withholding funds from sanctuary cities.

The 9th Circuit will hear the White House’s appeal of the lower court’s ruling, which would affect cities refusing to enforce federal immigration law.

The court covers Arizona, California, Alaska, Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Washington, Hawaii, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.