Yesterday Trump blasted the 9th circuit after Judge Jon S. Tigar, nominated by Obama, blocked his migrant mob proclamation that said people illegally crossing the border wouldn’t be able to apply for asylum.
Trump was furious:
Pres. Trump angrily criticizes federal judge's ruling blocking new restrictions on asylum, calling the court "not fair" and predicting he would win in the Supreme Court. https://t.co/0gAFLK3zqW pic.twitter.com/0JNxOsnzm3
— ABC News (@ABC) November 21, 2018
Well today Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, the judge who gave us Obamacare, rebuffed Trump’s criticism of the judiciary:
AP – Chief Justice John Roberts is pushing back against President Donald Trump for his description of a judge who ruled against Trump’s migrant asylum policy as an “Obama judge.”
It’s the first time the Republican-appointed leader of the federal judiciary has offered even a hint of criticism of Trump, who has previously blasted federal judges who ruled against him.
Roberts said Wednesday the U.S. doesn’t have “Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges.” He commented in a statement released by the Supreme Court after a query by The Associated Press.
Roberts said on the day before Thanksgiving that an “independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for.”
I appreciate the fact that Roberts wants to protect the view of the court in the eyes of the American public, but he’s wrong and everyone who pays attention to these judicial rulings knows it. Sure, some of the judiciary is independent. But there are plenty of activist judges who ignore the Constitution when making their rulings and are therefore NOT independent.
Justice is supposed to be blind. But when a judge ignores the very law that they are supposed to be upholding, justice is no longer blind and becomes based on agendas and beliefs. And while these activist judges aren’t exclusive to Democrats, a whole heck of a lot of them are nominated by people like Obama and Clinton.
Trump isn’t politically correct in the way he speaks and isn’t afraid to speak his mind. Sometimes that’s not good, but in this case I think he’s far more right than he is wrong when it comes to these activist judges.