{"id":19623,"date":"2017-02-06T02:54:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T02:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19623"},"modified":"2017-02-06T02:54:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T02:54:43","slug":"trump-draws-bead-on-another-federal-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19623","title":{"rendered":"Trump draws bead on another federal judge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Let me see a show of hands: Has anyone out there ever seen or heard a president of the United States attack individual members of the federal judiciary?<\/p>\n

I didn’t think so. Me neither.<\/p>\n

Donald “Smart Person” Trump is setting a new — lower — standard for behavior.<\/p>\n

A judge in western Washington state, James Robart, has stopped the president’s ban on refugees from certain countries. The Department of Justice is seeking an injunction against Robart’s ruling. That’s all normal reaction.<\/p>\n

What is quite abnormal has been the president’s Twitter tantrum, calling Robart a “so-called judge” and saying if “anything happens” because a criminal sneaked into the country, we should blame the judiciary for it.<\/p>\n

You’ll recall how as a candidate for president, Trump took on U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel because of his Mexican heritage. Curiel is presiding over a case involving Trump University. Trump said the judge couldn’t adjudicate the matter fairly because “he’s a Mexican, OK?” Actually, the Indiana-born jurist is as American as Trump.<\/p>\n

Trump needs lesson on presidential behavior.<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump as a candidate behaved disgracefully. Now that he’s president, he is expected to conduct himself with dignity and decorum. He isn’t. Trump continues to\u00a0launch into\u00a0these Twitter-borne tirades against a duly appointed federal judge.<\/p>\n

Indeed, it is reasonable to question whether the president is trying to coerce another member of a co-equal branch of government into doing his bidding.<\/p>\n

I believe such activity — if it’s ever alleged — would be illegal. As in against the very laws the president took a solemn oath to defend and protect.<\/p>\n\n

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Let me see a show of hands: Has anyone out there ever seen or heard a president of the United States attack individual members of the federal judiciary? I didn’t think so. Me neither. Donald “Smart Person” Trump is setting a new — lower — standard for behavior. A judge in western Washington state, James … Continue reading Trump draws bead on another federal judge<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,14],"tags":[1424,6280,6905,6286,4932],"class_list":["post-19623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-gonzalo-curiel","tag-james-robart","tag-trump-university","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19624,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19623\/revisions\/19624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}