OBAMA/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and President Donald Trump took swipes at each other Wednesday [11-21-18] in an extraordinary exchange over just how partisan federal courts really are. Roberts said Wednesday morning there are no ‘Obama judges or Trump judges’ after the president attacked the judge who ruled against his attempt to restrict asylum seekers at the border earlier this week…The statement from Roberts, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, was a stark divergence from the chief justice’s stoic aversion to publicly criticizing Trump, even as the president has railed against federal judges who did not rule in his favor. Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond School of Law, called Trump’s comments against the judiciary ‘unprecedented’ in modern history and praised Roberts for defending the Judicial branch. Chief justices have historical avoided fighting with the other co-equal branches of government, but Tobias said he was ‘heartened’ by Wednesday’s break from deference to keep Trump in his lane.”
–Matthew Choi, “Trump hits back at Chief Justice Roberts, escalating an extraordinary exchange,” Politico, November 21, 2018 7:29 pm