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I was new to Washington, and it was suggested that I use the Federalist Society as a recommending source on judges,
the president wrote
Calling for the impeachment of judges, attacking Leonard Leo personally and basically calling him as traitor as far as I can tell — Trump is basically turning his back on one of his biggest achievements of his first term,
he added, referring to the reshaping of the federal judiciaryConservative judges are going to be much more open to stepping down if they’re confident that their replacements will be high quality,
said Ed Whelan, a conservative legal commentator and former lawyer for the Bush administrationPresident Trump will pick even more bold and fearless judges in his second term,
he wrote on social mediaI’m very grateful for President Trump transforming the Federal Courts, and it was a privilege being involved. There’s more work to be done, for sure, but the Federal Judiciary is better than it’s ever been in modern history, and that will be President Trump’s most important legacy.”
On Thursday, Leo said in a statement
They don’t want someone who’s just going to be like, ‘We’re going to follow the law and do the originalistic thing, and whatever the result is, so may be it,
said the consultantThere’s a lot of people who voted for this president and followed him because they felt they could finally have judges who would read words and not make up what those words meant,
said John Vecchione, senior litigation counsel at New Civil Liberties Alliance and longtime member of the Federalist Society.jpg)
Nobody knew who Leonard Leo was before President Trump gave him a key role picking judges,
Mike Davis, a key Trump ally on judicial nominations who now runs the conservative advocacy group the Article III Project, said in an interview
Yeah, well, look, it wasn't meant to be that way. If you look at the founders, the president had certain powers. And you have three groups and ... they're equal powers."
Trump laughed in response and said
So many of the things that you're trying to do are held up in court right now. If the courts are going to have so much influence over U.S. policy, do you wish you would have just become a judge instead?"
Fox News' Peter Doocy asked Trump about the string of rulings during an Oval Office press conference on Friday, sayingThat's what the executive branch is for and you have checks and balances,
Trump told DoocyYou can't have a judge in Boston running foreign policy in places all over the country because he's got a liberal bent or he's a radical left person,
Trump said, referring to U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, who was appointed by former President Joe BidenLeonard Leo and the Federalist Society have spent decades installing judges to do their bidding from the bench. But anything short of 100% loyalty is unacceptable to Donald Trump, so it’s no surprise that he’s lashing out,
Meagan Hatcher-Mays of United for Democracy, a coalition of pro-democracy organizations, said in a statement
I am so disappointed in The Federalist Society because of the bad advice they gave me on numerous Judicial Nominations. This is something that cannot be forgotten!”
he saidTrump thinks there’s no limit to what he is able to get away with, because most of the time, there’s not,
she saidWhat do you care about? What do you want?”
Leo asked Trump during that meeting
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America cannot function if President Trump or any other president has their sensitive diplomatic or trade negotiations railroaded by activist judges,
Leavitt said
The statute in question has never in history been used in connection with tariffs,
Cobb saidI don’t think creepy Karoline — when she speaks — I don’t think anybody in America really takes her seriously on a matter of substance. I mean, she’s not learned by any imagination,
Cobb saidThe President’s interpretation of ‘national security’ exceeds the scope of the meaning intended by Congress,
Friedman wrote