President Trump said two liberal Supreme Court justices should recuse themselves in all future cases which involve him.
In a late night tweet on Monday, the president said Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg should step back from “all Trump, or Trump related, matters,” citing a quote made on Fox News’s Ingraham Angle.
“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 on all Trump, or Trump related, matters,” Trump tweeted. “While ‘elections have consequences,’ I only ask for fairness, especially when it comes to decisions made by the United States Supreme Court.”
“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
Sotomayor, nominated by President Barack Obama in 2009, issued a strong dissent to the Supreme Court’s decision released Friday on Wolf v. Cook County, a case dealing with immigration policy. In her opinion, Sotomayor wrote that her conservative colleagues on the Supreme Court, who have the majority, are “putting a thumb on the scale in favor of” the Trump administration.
“Today’s decision follows a now-familiar pattern,” Sotomayor said. “The Government seeks emergency relief from this Court, asking it to grant a stay where two lower courts have not. The Government insists — even though review in a court of appeals is imminent — that it will suffer irreparable harm if this Court does not grant a stay. And the Court yields.”
Ginsburg, nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993, called Trump a “faker” in 2016 while he was running for the presidency. “He is a faker,” the Supreme Court justice said then of Trump. “He has no consistency about him. He says whatever comes into his head at the moment. He really has an ego. … How has he gotten away with not turning over his tax returns? The press seems to be very gentle with him on that.”
