U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman of the District of Columbia said Trump’s rhetoric “violates all recognized democratic norms” during a speech at the annual
Judge Thomas A. Flannery Lecture in Washington on Wednesday.

“We are in unchartered territory,” said Friedman, 75, an appointee of President Bill Clinton. “We are witnessing a chief executive who criticizes virtually every
judicial decision that doesn’t go his way and denigrates judges who rule against him, sometimes in very personal terms. He seems to view the courts and the
justice system as obstacles to be attacked and undermined, not as a coequal branch to be respected even when he disagrees with its decisions.”

Trump has denounced judges who have halted some of his administration’s most hotly debated policies, including his threats to withhold federal funds from
sanctuary cities and his attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which protects from deportation young undocumented
immigrants brought to the United States as children. The president also has attacked judges over rulings that negatively affect him personally.

Friedman rebuked Trump for his political attacks against judges. He noted that Trump is not the first president to accuse the judiciary of overreaching, playing
politics and “legislating from the bench.” Thomas Jefferson tried to make federal judges’ seats elected positions. Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to add six friendly
justices to the Supreme Court — “a bad idea then and a bad idea now,” Friedman said. And Dwight D. Eisenhower later referred to appointing Earl Warren as
chief justice of the United States as one of his biggest mistakes. But none of those former presidents used rhetoric as inflammatory as Trump’s, which has been
“markedly different,” the federal judge said.

“This is not normal,” he said. “And I mean that both in the colloquial sense and in the sense that this kind of personal attack on courts and individual judges
violates all recognized democratic norms.”

Friedman said he does not object to criticism of judges, but he suggested that incivility and political scorn had escalated to unacceptable levels in recent years.
He also criticized journalists and other politicians, who he said increasingly identify judges by the president who appointed them.

“The reality is that when the Trump administration has lost cases in the courts, it is not because of Clinton or Obama judges,” Friedman said, “but because of
judges who are trying to follow the law and the Constitution.”

Friedman took one final stab at Trump in his closing remarks, criticizing the president’s tendency to bend the truth.

“Unlike the other two branches of government, the courts are charged with making decisions grounded in facts,” he said, “never on alternative facts.”

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When tRump loses cases, it's not because of personal animosity.

“Unlike the other two branches of government, the courts are charged with making decisions grounded in facts,” he said, “never on alternative facts.”

said Friedman, 75, an appointee of President Bill Clinton.




Like the leaker deemed Incorrectly a whistleblower, his partisanship is like seeing a battleship in a pond (https://www.aesopsretreat.com/forum/Smileys/classic/hattip.gif)

We’ve seen the courts make decisions on the alternative facts all the time duuuuuhhhmbvik, like BarryKare for just one!

In reality the courts have made some pretty messed up rulings lately and most are from the left as you would expect them to do with marching orders from the DNC.

And ou would call them messed up because your ultra, right-wing, biased "common unsense" tells you so?

The courts actions and finding should be based on law and or laws not politics or political leanings.. And right now the democrats are not getting their choice of left wing political judges placed on the courts, which in time will do them great harm in trying to get the court system to do their political bidding.

Good!  Democratics suck!