Trump and Company ARE making a SERIOUS mistake…
Quietly going around judges , as they ARE doing now is one thing….
Going AFTER the judges is another….
Trump has had several judges pissed at him….
Making the Federal judges a target isn’t gonna work on the intimidation front …
He could be inviting a whole batch of loses with the NUMEROUS cases that could land in the Supreme’s laps….
Polling actually shows MORE Americans FAVOR the courts than Trump’s actions….
Chief Justice John Roberts is pushing back against President Donald Trump’s call to impeach judges who’ve ruled against the administration.
“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose,” Roberts said Tuesday in a rare and brief statement issued just hours after Trump publicly joined demands by his supporters to remove judges he called “crooked.”
It’s the most intense public conflict between Trump and Roberts since 2018, when the chief justice came to the defense of federal judges who’d ruled against Trump policies.
“This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post Tuesday.
A Supreme Court spokesperson said Roberts issued the statement in response to reporters’ inquiries about Trump’s endorsement of growing calls from his supporters for impeachment of judges seen as impeding Trump’s agenda. In recent weeks, judges have issued orders blocking Trump’s attempt to mass fire federal workers, freeze grants and contracts issued by many federal agencies and end DEI programs inside and outside the U.S. government.
The chief justice seemed to forecast the current clash last December when he publicly warned against politicians seeking to delegitimize the judiciary.
“Every Administration suffers defeats in the court system — sometimes in cases with major ramifications for executive or legislative power or other consequential topics. Nevertheless, for the past several decades, the decisions of the courts, popular or not, have been followed,” Roberts wrote in his year-end report. “Within the past few years, however, elected officials from across the political spectrum have raised the specter of open disregard for federal court rulings. These dangerous suggestions, however sporadic, must be soundly rejected.”
Roberts’ statement appeared aimed at tamping down a rising fury on Capitol Hill among Republicans after Trump’s post ignited a fresh round of impeachment calls.
Close Trump allies, who had already proposed impeaching judges who blocked Trump’s birthright citizenship order and spending cuts overseen by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, took Trump’s post as a cue to ramp up their rhetoric….
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