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The Judge of the US Supreme Court of the US Ketanji Brown Jackson harshly criticized President Donald Trump, without appointing him, for his attacks on the judges, arguing that the president’s rhetoric and his allies threatens democracy, according to Politic.
Politico reported that Jackson, who intervened at a legal conference in Puerto Rico on Thursday, acknowledged that judges from all over the country face “implacable attacks, contempt and contempt.”
“The attacks are not random. They seem designed to intimidate those who play this crucial function,” Jackson said, according to Politico. “Threats and harassment are attacks on our democracy, our government system. And, ultimately, they run the risk of undermining our Constitution and the rule of law.”
Jackson’s comments occur while Trump’s attacks on judges and legal establishment have intensified, calling to dismiss the magistrates who fail against him, decrees aimed at law firms representing their perceived enemies and the arrest of a state judge to allegedly help an undocumented immigrant to avoid the arrest.
The judge did not say Trump’s name, but said he was talking about “the elephant in the room,” according to Politico.
The same night Jackson delivered his sentence, Trump again attack the judicial system, telling the students during a speech at the University of Alabama that “the courts are trying to prevent him from doing the work for which I was chosen.”
“The judges are supposedly interfering with due process, but how can due process be given to people who entered our country illegally?” Trump asked.
Jackson’s resistance has been evidenced as the numerous legal battles of the Trump administration continue to develop, some of which reach the Supreme Court.
In a case last month, he condemned the aggressive offensive of the Trump administration against illegal immigration, describing it as “sending people to a notoriously brutal prison and directed by foreigners,” and added: “For lovers of freedom, this should be quite worrying.”
In a separate case on the cancellation of subsidies for teacher training by the Trump administration, Jackson mocked the “robotic deployment” of the Department of Education and denounced his “highly questionable behavior.”
Jackson, appointed by President Joe Biden, is not the only judge of the Supreme Court who has criticized Trump’s rhetoric towards the magistrates. In an extremely unusual statement in March, the president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the US, John Roberts, counterattacked Trump, although he did not mention it by name either.
“For more than two centuries, it has been established that Impeachment is not an adequate response to the disagreement about a judicial decision,” Roberts said in the March declaration. “The normal appeal review process exists for that purpose.”
Betsy Klein de CNN contributed to this report.
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