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lostincalifornia

(5,538 posts)
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 11:35 AM Sep 2025

Justice Barrett Says Trump Barbs a Dance 'We've Seen Before'

"Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett downplayed President Donald Trump’s sharp barbs directed at federal judges, telling a New York crowd that US presidents have a long history of criticizing the judiciary.

Barrett appeared on stage Thursday night at Lincoln Center, where she was promoting her new book and spent an hour fielding questions from Bari Weiss, a conservative journalist and podcaster. Barrett sidestepped controversial answers, including when Weiss pressed her on Trump’s harsh criticism of judges who rule against his policies.

Trump’s wave of policies testing the bounds of presidential power has been met with a deluge of lawsuits, many of which have ended up on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket. Federal judges overseeing challenges to Trump’s executive orders around the US have faced a spike in death threats and other harassment in recent months.

“Conflicts between a president and the judiciary are not new,” said Barrett, citing former presidents who clashed with judges, Andrew Jackson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. “This is a dance that we’ve seen before.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-05/justice-barrett-calls-trump-barbs-a-dance-we-ve-seen-before


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Justice Barrett Says Trump Barbs a Dance 'We've Seen Before' (Original Post) lostincalifornia Sep 2025 OP
I hope he throws her in prison when she rules against him Johnny2X2X Sep 2025 #1
Ignorance is bliss bucolic_frolic Sep 2025 #2
LOL because she's such a seasoned veteran? Ursus Rex Sep 2025 #3
Right, like what richard nixon tried to do. lostincalifornia Sep 2025 #4
Your role in this dance, Mrs. Barrett, is to slap down the President when he grabs our Constitution by the Midnight Writer Sep 2025 #5

Johnny2X2X

(24,438 posts)
1. I hope he throws her in prison when she rules against him
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 11:40 AM
Sep 2025

Then she can sit there in the gulag thinking of more ways to defend him.

Ursus Rex

(499 posts)
3. LOL because she's such a seasoned veteran?
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 11:50 AM
Sep 2025

her career may not be exactly "meteoric," but she was picked as much for being a callow youth as her Handmaid's modesty.

Midnight Writer

(25,752 posts)
5. Your role in this dance, Mrs. Barrett, is to slap down the President when he grabs our Constitution by the
Fri Sep 5, 2025, 12:14 PM
Sep 2025

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