President Trump lit up the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thanksgiving Day, continuing a public fight he’s been having this week with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
“Justice Roberts can say what he wants, but the 9th Circuit is a complete & total disaster,” Trump tweeted early Thursday morning. “It is out of control, has a horrible reputation, is overturned more than any Circuit in the Country, 79%, & is used to get an almost guaranteed result.”
“Judges must not Legislate Security and Safety at the Border, or anywhere else,” he continued. “They know nothing about it and are making our Country unsafe. Our great Law Enforcement professionals MUST BE ALLOWED TO DO THEIR JOB! If not there will be only bedlam, chaos, injury and death. We want the Constitution as written!”
Justice Roberts can say what he wants, but the 9th Circuit is a complete & total disaster. It is out of control, has a horrible reputation, is overturned more than any Circuit in the Country, 79%, & is used to get an almost guaranteed result. Judges must not Legislate Security…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 22, 2018
….and Safety at the Border, or anywhere else. They know nothing about it and are making our Country unsafe. Our great Law Enforcement professionals MUST BE ALLOWED TO DO THEIR JOB! If not there will be only bedlam, chaos, injury and death. We want the Constitution as written!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 22, 2018
Trump has been in a back-and-forth with the Judicial Branch of government this week, starting when he said an “Obama judge” ruled against his border policy.
That prompted a rare rebuke from Roberts, who said judges shouldn’t be seen as belonging to one president or another.
“We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges,” Roberts said in a statement distributed by the Supreme Court. “What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them.”
Trump responded Wednesday by saying there are “Obama judges” who have a different view of the Constitution than others.
“Sorry Chief Justice John Roberts, but you do indeed have ‘Obama judges,’ and they have a much different point of view than the people who are charged with the safety of our country,” Trump said. “It would be great if the 9th Circuit was indeed an ‘independent judiciary,’ but if it is why are so many opposing view (on Border and Safety) cases filed there, and why are a vast number of those cases overturned.”
Just before Trump’s early morning tweets about the judicial branch, Trump tweeted, “HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL!”
