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turbinetree

(24,720 posts)
Tue Feb 25, 2020, 11:11 AM Feb 2020

Trump lashes out at liberal supreme court justices and demands recusals

Even as the US justice system faces a crisis of credibility because of the Trump administration’s handling of federal cases, Donald Trump has taken the unusual step of attacking two supreme court justices on Twitter and in remarks to the press.

In a dissent last week, justice Sonia Sotomayor criticized the Trump administration’s frequent appeals to the supreme court to intervene in lower-court decisions, and the court’s willingness to side with such requests.

On Twitter, responding to a segment on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle, Trump unleashed a tirade against Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has criticized the president in the past.

“This is a terrible thing to say,” Trump tweeted. “Trying to ‘shame’ some into voting her way? She never criticized Justice Ginsberg when she called me a ‘faker’. Both should recuse themselves on all Trump, or Trump related, matters!

“While ‘elections have consequences’” – a reference to his two supreme court appointments since winning the White House, both reliable conservatives – “I only ask for fairness, especially when it comes to decisions made by the United States supreme court!”

At a press conference in India on Tuesday, Trump repeated his complaint.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/25/trump-supreme-court-sonia-sotomayor-ruth-bader-ginsburg

Okay the Ingraham person has lost advertisers because she is a racists and bigot and hey traitor, I and millions of others criticize you every chance we get........ever hear of the firts amendment that you like to use and know one else has that right in your fucked up head...............and has for Sotomayer and Ginsburg, I have there back ......................they are heroes and patriots in my book................................your a traitor and your IMPEACHED ...........................that means your a disgrace forever............................


November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough.........................or if we have to go into the streets first...................

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Trump lashes out at liberal supreme court justices and demands recusals (Original Post) turbinetree Feb 2020 OP
Then Gorsuch & Kavanaugh, who got their places because of him should recuse irisblue Feb 2020 #1
And then there is Ginni Thomas..............................with her purging list turbinetree Feb 2020 #2

irisblue

(33,023 posts)
1. Then Gorsuch & Kavanaugh, who got their places because of him should recuse
Tue Feb 25, 2020, 11:30 AM
Feb 2020

As well as Thomas who has deep strong republican roots

turbinetree

(24,720 posts)
2. And then there is Ginni Thomas..............................with her purging list
Tue Feb 25, 2020, 11:34 AM
Feb 2020



November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough............................
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