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'This Is Not Normal': US Judge Denounces Trump's Attacks on Judiciary
"He seems to view the courts and the justice system as obstacles to be attacked and undermined, not as a co-equal branch to be respected even when he disagrees with its decisions, U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman said in remarks Wednesday in Washington.
By C. Ryan Barber | November 07, 2019 at 12:47 PM
A federal judge on Wednesday publicly denounced Donald Trump over his attacks on the judiciary, declaring that the president has undermined confidence in the legal system by impugning members of the federal bench and disparaging decisions against his administration.
Senior Judge Paul Friedman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, delivering the annual Judge Thomas A. Flannery Lecture in Washington, highlighted several examples from the past two years in which Trump assailed judges for ruling against his administration.
Friedman bemoaned what he said was the growing belief that jurists reflexively decide cases in line with their political beliefs, and he said at least some of the blame for that trend rests with Trump.
We are witnessing a chief executive who criticizes virtually every judicial decision that doesnt go his way and denigrates judges who rule against him, sometimes in very personal terms. He seems to view the courts and the justice system as obstacles to be attacked and undermined, not as a co-equal branch to be respected even when he disagrees with its decisions.
Later, he added: This is not normal. And I mean that both in the colloquial sense and in the sense that this kind of personal attack on courts and individual judges violates all recognized democratic norms.
Friedmans remarks, rare for a sitting trial judge, were met with a standing ovation inside the ceremonial courtroom of the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse. Many judges from the federal trial and appeals courts were in attendance, along with Trump appointees, including Jessie Liu, the top federal prosecutor in Washington, and former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
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Tom Yossarian Joad
(19,227 posts)malaise
(268,887 posts)That attack on the Judiciary this week after his $2M fine deserves condemnation.
Don the Con is really unfit for office. ITTMF
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Rosenstein at one point. Now I have no faith in him whatsoever. I thought he was one of the good guys. I wonder if any gop reps. have seen this article? The Not-So-Supreme Court is responsible for some of the damage. When they put Dubya into the WH, I lost all respect for them.
I figure they had the CJ in the palm of his hands given his use of painkillers.
I was very surprised that the Judiciary didn't speak out when the Con attacked Justice Curiel.
https://time.com/4356045/donald-trump-judge-gonalo-curiel/
gibraltar72
(7,501 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)generations may not enjoy the same level of protection from executive abuses considering the number on nut-job unqualified, ideologues he has appointed to the federal bench.
slater71
(1,153 posts)He thinks that they will rule in favor of him and some of them sadly will. Same with the supreme court.
malaise
(268,887 posts)have their own skeletons in closets and will eventually be removed or sent to prison. Remember there was one who had shares in a juvenile lock up and was sending kids there. I hope more than a few of them are impeached starting with that scumbag Kavanaugh
Martin Eden
(12,863 posts)That is the overriding theme of this presidency.