U.S. President Donald Trump turned his ire on the Supreme Court, calling on two liberal justices to recuse themselves from any cases involving him or his administration
NEW DELHI - President Donald Trump on Tuesday turned his ire on liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, making a highly unusual call for them to recuse themselves from any cases involving him or his administration.
“I just don’t know how they cannot recuse themselves with anything having to do with Trump or Trump-related,” Trump said, adding that Supreme Court justices should be held to a “higher standard.”Trump throughout his presidency has criticized federal judges after rulings he did not like. Critics have accused him of political interference in the courts and seeking to compromise the independence of the judiciary.
Trump’s administration has made numerous quick appeals to the Supreme Court, sometimes bypassing lower federal appeals courts - a hallmark of its legal strategy partly because of the high number of policies blocked by lower courts early in his presidency.Legal scholars said while the strategy may seem rational it endangers the credibility of the office of the U.S. Solicitor General, who is responsible for defending the administration’s policies at the Supreme Court.
“It’s almost what she’s trying to do is take the people that do feel a different way and get them to vote the way that she would like them to vote. I just thought it was so inappropriate,” Trump said of Sotomayor.
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