US does have 'Obama judges': Trump responds to Supreme Court Justice John Roberts'

[Dill]

(11-22-2018, 12:46 PM)fredtoast Wrote: In this case Trump is correct, but the scary part is the pattern he is creating.

Now that Trump followers can not trust courts, media journalits, and the CIA/FBI there is NO ONE they can trust other than Trump.

So if the FBI/CIA were to claim that Trump was guilty, and a court agreed, and the media reported facts to support those claims his followers will still believe it is all "rigged".

That is the central issue for me--once again Trump is undermining an institution whose authority and credibility are necessary for the functioning of democracy.

There is no way, for the foreseeable future, that Federal judges and others appointed to government office can be anything other than people appointed by Democrats or Republicans. Yet accusations of the "He/she's Obama's man" type have been the mainstay of Trump's criticism following any reasonable check on presidential power.  He, with help from Hannity, Pirro, and Levin, then throw out an elaborate system of linkages--X's wife contributed to a Dem campaign, Y's husband worked for a Dem governor, Z's daughter went to Aspen on a skiing trip with Chelsea--so the government is constricted in a spider's web of more or less open deep-state Dem/RINO operatives bent on stopping Trump's POLICIES. All the complaints about his misogyny, his inability to understand rule-of-law/checks and balances, and his foreign policy missteps are just a distraction from the real worry, which is that under Trump/Fox America is becoming great again.

Almost all presidents have criticized SCOTUS decisions; what is different in this case, what led Roberts to speak out, is Trump's pushing the idea that party appointments, not Constitutional law, are sufficient to explain their decisions--nevermind that Republican appointed judges have stepped forward to check his power. Part of this is deliberate, on his part, but it also speaks to his lack of understanding how the U.S. government actually works. That his tactic works speaks to a similar lack in his base.