With Latest Angry Tweet, Trumps Sets Off On “Collision Course” With Supreme Court
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Feb 8, 2017
With Trump’s first angry tweet of the day, it is becoming very clear that the president’s diplomatic approach vis-a-vis the judicial system can be described quite simply as “scorched earth.” Following last night’s Appeals Court hearing, Trump had the following response: “If the U.S. does not win this case as it so obviously should, we can never have the security and safety to which we are entitled. Politics!”
This, as The Hill puts it this morning, assures that Trump and the Supreme Court are now on a collision course: “the collision appears inevitable, with Trump’s executive order halting travel to the United States by people from seven majority-Muslim countries — a ban a federal judge blocked last week — already moving quickly through the judicial system.”
The clash is coming because Trump’s travel order could be on the Supreme Court docket soon: a federal appeals court heard arguments on Tuesday, and after the adverse ruling – which may come as soon as today – the next stop will almost certainly be the high court. The problem, for Trump, is that any decision will be interpreted through the prism of Trump’s comments on the judiciary, which critics say threaten the separation of powers.
At issue is Trump’s ongoing feud on Twitter, and elsewhere, with judges.
The Hill cites legal scholars who say Trump’s attacks on judges are unlikely to have any effect on a high court ruling. But it will be impossible for the justices to have missed those broadsides, which have extended to Chief Justice John Roberts himself.
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