On the recordSeptember 21, 2020
Attacks on the judiciary by our President undermine that legitimacy and that faith.
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congress.govAttacks on the judiciary by our President undermine that legitimacy and that faith.
Gertner discusses how presidential attacks affect public trust in the judiciary.
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the classified information that is being described is not and can't possibly be shielded by executive privilege. In other words, he didn't have a right to have it, he didn't have a right to have it in his beach house.
this was a move that, in my view, is so far from constitutional that no judge worthy of their name would ever rule in a different direction.
This is just pushing back on the judiciary, and then, when the judiciary does what they don’t want them to do, and the judiciary says this is wrong, trying to delegitimize that decision.