Trump’s recent violation of CNN’s Jim Acosta’s constitutional right to due process hasn’t slowed the journalist down at all. After Trump attacked Chief Justice John Roberts on Twitter, Acosta spent his Thanksgiving reminding the American people that the judiciary serves as a check and balance to the president and picking a fight with them is probably not the best idea.
“Ultimately, all of these questions are going to wind up at the Supreme Court and the Chief Justice is laying down, I think, a very important marker here: He is defending the judiciary,” Democrat Rep. @JohnGaramendi tells @Acosta about Trump’s war of words with John Roberts. pic.twitter.com/hE3amrmTiJ
— The Situation Room (@CNNSitRoom) November 21, 2018
Democratic Rep. John Garamendi spoke with Acosta during the Thanksgiving morning broadcast just hours after Trump went after Roberts once again. Trump is angered that the courts won’t allow him to change the Constitution through executive orders and end the rights of migrants to apply for asylum once inside the border if they didn’t enter through an approved checkpoint. He warned about chaos and death just moments after wishing the country a happy Thanksgiving.
The Constitution as written does not preclude anyone from applying for asylum, and Trump telling a long-time member of the SCOTUS anything about the Constitution is laughable.
Rebuke to Trump from Chief Justice Roberts on independent judiciary: “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them."
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) November 21, 2018
Garamendi agreed that Trump’s attacks are not only unwise, but more proof that Trump believes there should be no system of checks and balances.
‘The president is seeing himself as a dictator, as above the law. It’s all about him, it’s all about his power, that he can dictate whatever he wants. He’s going to find out something quite different both because the Democrats will have the Congress and we’ll do investigations and the court just said, “we’re independent, Mr. President.”‘
“It’s pretty remarkable, and it’s sort of remarkably petty to have the President of the United States tweeting insults, essentially, at the chief justice,” @Susan_Hennessey tells @Acosta. https://t.co/zYIbc5EpWd pic.twitter.com/xR5N69sTSv
— The Situation Room (@CNNSitRoom) November 21, 2018
Trump may also find out that attacking the man who might oversee his impeachment isn’t very smart, but no one believes Trump is a “stable genius” except Trump.
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