President Donald Trump is now demanding that Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor recuse themselves from any cases that come before the high court involving him because he believes them to be biased against him and unable to make fair rulings, HuffPost reports:
Monday evening, while he was still in India on a state visit, the president sent out these tweets regarding Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayor:
“Sotomayor accuses GOP appointed Justices of being biased in favor of Trump.” @IngrahamAngle @FoxNews This is a terrible thing to say. Trying to “shame” some into voting her way? She never criticized Justice Ginsberg when she called me a “faker”. Both should recuse themselves..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 25, 2020
….on all Trump, or Trump related, matters! While “elections have consequences”, I only ask for fairness, especially when it comes to decisions made by the United States Supreme Court!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 25, 2020
Trump’s tweets, HuffPost notes, appear to be in response to a dissent from Sotomayor last week:
“(Sotomayor) accused the Supreme Court’s conservative wing of being biased toward the administration, saying they’ve been ‘all too quick to grant the Government’s reflexiv[e] requests.’ She warned that such actions could ‘erode the fair and balanced decisionmaking process that this Court must strive to protect.'”
It didn’t take long before others on social media reminded the president that the federal judiciary isn’t subservient to him:
If any justices need to recuse, it’s Trump’s own appointees, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, especially after Kavanaugh warned of retribution to Democrats. https://t.co/VMqQyKZhe5
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) February 25, 2020
Actually the justice who most needs to recuse from cases involving Trump is Clarence Thomas, whose wife is a paid MAGA mercenary.https://t.co/QtvdQd3Gex
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) February 25, 2020
So here we go. Trump demands the two liberal female judges on the Supreme Court (Sotomayor and Ginsburg) recuse themselves on any Trump-related Supreme Court hearings. This is what happens when you appoint ‘left-wing’ and ‘right-wing’ judges. An affront to democracy. And scary. https://t.co/IF5vBstGwD
— Daphne Romney QC (@DaphneRomneyQC) February 25, 2020
Donald Trump demanding that a justice recuse herself for pointing out the partisan bias of other justices is peak GOP.
— Alexandra Erin (@AlexandraErin) February 25, 2020
Dude, you have disgustingly influenced sentencing recommendations. You disgustingly influence the DoJ. You influence the intelligence community. All you do is damage democratic norms. So save us this hysteria over Sotomayor & Ginsberg, both of whom are patriots-unlike YOU.
— HawaiiDelilah™ (@HawaiiDelilah) February 25, 2020
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