Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke out Thursday against what she saw as President Donald Trump’s efforts to bully and threaten the federal judiciary into submission, Politico reported.
The remarks from Jackson, the most junior member of the Supreme Court, came as she addressed a judge’s conference in Puerto Rico.
“The attacks are not random. They seem designed to intimidate,” she said. “The threats and harassment are attacks on our democracy, on our system of government. And they ultimately risk undermining our Constitution and the rule of law.”
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President Donald Trump has escalated his verbal abuse of judges amid a series of rulings that block him from carrying out mass deportations and implementing various executive orders to reshape the civil service. Some of the judges to rule against him are judges Trump himself appointed. In other cases, like the dispute over returning wrongly deported Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a Salvadoran megaprison, observers have accused Trump of ignoring court orders outright.
As this standoff has continued, some of Trump’s allies have advocated for stripping judges of power to prevent Trump from being challenged.
Jackson and the liberal wing of the Supreme Court do not stand alone in these criticisms. Chief Justice John Roberts has also spoken out, expressing worry that politicians on all sides are losing confidence in the judiciary, and particularly condemned Trump’s call to impeach judges who rule against him.
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