Trump Launches New Attack On Supreme Court, Demands Liberal Justices Recuse
The president wants associate justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg to sit out any “Trump-related” cases.
PresidentDonald Trumplaunched a new attack on the judicial system on Monday, targeting the highest court in the land by demanding that two liberalSupreme Courtjustices recuse themselves from any case involving him or his administration.
“Sotomayor accuses GOP appointed Justices of being biased in favor of Trump.”@IngrahamAngle@FoxNewsThis 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! While “elections have consequences”, I only ask for fairness, especially when it comes to decisions made by the United States Supreme Court!
Trump has a history of attacking prosecutors and judges. Earlier this month,he slammed U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, the judge in the case against longtime Trump ally Roger Stone. She also presided over a case that concluded last year against former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
Trump’s latest attack seems to be in response to adissent Sotomayorwrote last week in which she accused the Supreme Court’s conservative wing of being biased toward the administration, saying they’ve been “all too quick to grant the Government’s ‘reflexiv[e]’ requests.” She warned that such actions could “erode the fair and balanced decisionmaking process that this Court must strive to protect.”
Twitter users blasted the president over his demand that the two justices recuse themselves:
Trump demands two female Supreme Court justices recuse themselves from all of his cases: ‘I only...
The president of the United States on Monday demanded two Supreme Court justices recuse themselves from all cases related to his interests. Donald Trump made his demand while visiting India. Trump...
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Rep. Richard Dangler@RDangler
Clarence Thomas needs to recuse himself from any case involving Donald Trump. If he doesn't, he needs to be removed from the Supreme Court.
His wife's political hackery in service to Trump can't be separated from his job as a justice.
Kyle Griffin✔@kylegriffin1
The president is now going after a Supreme Court justice on Twitter because he didn't like her dissenting opinion in a case.
So Justice Sonia Sotomayor complains about all these GOP appointed Justices being biased in favor of Trump, and Trump’s response is to demand that both Sotomayor and Ginsburg recuse themselves, which would leave Elena Kagan as the only female Justice left on the Supreme Court.
“Sotomayor accuses GOP appointed Justices of being biased in favor of Trump.”@IngrahamAngle@FoxNewsThis 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..
Daphne Romney QC@DaphneRomneyQC
So here we go. Trump demands the two liberal female judges on the Supreme Court (Sotomayor and Ginsburg) recuse themselves on any Trump-related Supreme Court hearings. This is what happens when you appoint 'left-wing' and 'right-wing' judges. An affront to democracy. And scary.https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1232155591537254400 …
Donald J. Trump✔@realDonaldTrump
“Sotomayor accuses GOP appointed Justices of being biased in favor of Trump.”@IngrahamAngle@FoxNewsThis 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..
“Sotomayor accuses GOP appointed Justices of being biased in favor of Trump.”@IngrahamAngle@FoxNewsThis 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..
Alexandra Erin@AlexandraErin
Donald Trump demanding that a justice recuse herself for pointing out the partisan bias of other justices is peak GOP.
Trump in a landslide? This historically accurate model predicts exactly that
President Donald Trump has a love/hate relationship with polls, surveys and predictions. He loves the ones that paint him in a positive light, and, of course, he hates all those “fake” ones that don’t.
He’s going to absolutely adore this one.
According toMoody’s Analytics, Trump is headed toward another four years in the White House. And, if the numbers are right, it won’t even be close.
In fact, his Electoral College victory could very well be wider than the 304-227 margin he enjoyed over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
Since 1980, Moody’s has managed to nail the outcome every time but once — like many, it didn’t see Trump coming.
“In our post-mortem of the 2016 presidential election model,” the report said, “we determined that unexpected turnout patterns were one of the factors that contributed to the model’s first incorrect election prediction.” Here’s Moody’s track record, including a 2016 adjustment for the turnout variable:
Will it return to its winning ways? The team takes into account how consumers feel about their finances, the performance of the stock marketSPX,+0.18%and their job prospects. Essentially, today, they’re feeling pretty good.
“Under the current Moody’s Analytics baseline economic outlook, which does not forecast any recession, the 2020 election looks like Trump’s to lose,” the authors wrote. “Democrats can still win if they are able to turn out the vote at record levels, but, under normal turnout conditions, the president is projected to win.”
Moody’s uses three models to come up with its forecast. In each case, Trump gets at least 289 Electoral College votes.
The “pocketbook” measure, which focus on how people feel about their money situation, is where Trump shines brightest, grabbing a whopping 351 electoral votes. “If voters were to vote primarily on the basis of their pocketbooks, the president would steamroll the competition,” the report said.
The stock-market model gives him the slightest edge of 289-249, as investors continue to navigate a volatile investing landscape. Then there’s the unemployment model, which leans heavily in his favor at 332-206.
Trump’s First 3 Years Created 1.5 Million Fewer Jobs Than Obama’s Last 3
New Labor Department statistics show that despite Trump’s repeated boasts, job creation was a lot higher during Barack Obama’s final years.
As PresidentDonald Trumptakes the stage at his reelection rally here Monday and boasts of his economic record, there is one statistic he is likely to omit: He created 1.5 million fewerjobsin his first three years in office than predecessorBarack Obamadid in his final three.
Newly revised figures from Trump’s own Department of Labor show that 6.6 million new jobs were created in the first 36 months of Trump’s tenure, compared with 8.1 million in the final 36 months of Obama’s ― a decline of 19% under Trump, according to a HuffPost analysis.
Economists say that the slowing of job creation is not surprising. There are fewer empty jobs and fewer unemployed people available to fill them as the economy gets closer to full employment.
“I’m not a big fan of jobs numbers as a metric of success,” said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, once the top economic adviser to the late Arizona Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign. He added, though, that Trump’s “hyperbole” notwithstanding, “the performance of the labor market has been nothing short of stunning.”
David Rothschild, an economist with Microsoft Research, said Trump is presiding over a decent job market ― the same as his Democratic predecessor did. “The economy is basically humming along for the last three years, just as it was for the last year several years of the Obama administration,” Rothschild said.
Nevertheless, the statistics belie Trump’s frequent claims that he turned around Obama’s poor management of the economy.
The White House would not respond to the new statistics, but spokesman Judd Deere told HuffPost: “President Obama presided over one of the slowest recoveries in history while President Trump has smashed expectations with 5 million more jobs grown than forecasted by the (Congressional Budget Office), a record setting stock market, strong wage growth for blue collar workers, and historically low unemployment rates. Because of the strength of the Trump economy more and more Americans are coming off the sidelines to find work many of whom were left out of the so-called Obama recovery.”
During his State of the Union speech last week to Congress, Trump said: “If we hadn’t reversed the failed economic policies of the previous administration, the world would not now be witnessing this great economic success.”
The economy is just one of several areas where Trump repeatedly claims credit for conditions or policies implemented under his predecessors. He has bragged about reductions in air and water pollution that were the result of presidents going back decades. He hasclaimed creditfor a reduction in lung cancer deaths based on a decades-long study that ended the year he took office. Perhaps most famously, he has repeatedly ― and falsely ― boasted aboutpassing the “VA Choice Act,”which allows veterans to get medical care at private facilities if wait times are too long at Veteran Affairs clinics, even though it was signed into law by Obama.
But the economy is the one issue that could determine whether Trump succeeds or fails in his attempt to win a second term ― and his boasts about it are consistently misleading and, at times, simply false.
Trump repeatedly brags that unemployment among African Americans is at historic lows. While that was correct in August and September, the unemployment figure has risen since then, according to federal statistics. More broadly, the trend lines for bothAfrican AmericansandLatinosshow a steady decrease from the end of the 2008-09 recession, through the Obama presidency and to the present day, with no significant change in the slope of those graphs when Trump took office in January 2017.
“He’s largely riding trends he inherited,” said Jared Bernstein, once the chief economist to former Vice President Joe Biden.
Bernstein and other economists pointed out that the nation’s gross domestic product, after showing higher growth rates immediately after the passage of Republican-backed tax cuts in late 2017, have now dropped closer to 2% ― a figure that Trump and others called weak during the Obama years.
And that, Holtz-Eakin and Rothschild agreed, could be attributed to the trade war Trump picked with China starting in mid-2018, and from which the president has only recently started to back down.
“There are markets we’re probably not going to get back, and we’re going to have nothing to show for it,” Rothschild said. “The economy is moving along pretty well despite the best efforts of Donald Trump.”
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