Liberal Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan took a veiled shot at President Trump during a judicial conference on Thursday.
Kagan did not mention President Trump by name but she warned against threatening and said court orders must always be obeyed.
Politico reported:
As the Trump administration’s clash with the judiciary intensifies, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan issued a message on Thursday: Stop threatening judges, and always obey court orders.
But Kagan spoke in vague terms and did not say who her warning was aimed at. She did not directly mention President Donald Trump, even as some lower-court judges have already found that the administration has defied their commands.
“That’s just just not the way our system works, not the way rule of law in this country works,” Kagan said at a judicial conference here. “That’s true for the Supreme Court, and it’s also true for every district court. Unless and until an appellate court or the Supreme Court says otherwise, judicial orders are judicial orders and need to be respected.”
Kagan cautioned the hundreds of judges in the audience not to respond to verbal attacks by lashing out in their decisions, but by carrying out their duties as they normally do.
Last month Supreme Court Justice Roberts once again took a veiled shot at Trump and said attacks against judge can lead to violence.
This is the fourth time that Roberts has publicly rebuked Trump in recent months.
Roberts didn’t call out Trump by name but he decried ad hominem attacks against justices.
The Chief Justice made the latest remarks on Saturday during an appearance at a judicial conference.
Roberts also rebuked President Trump in the Spring during a fireside chat in New York.
Speaking at a fireside chat to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the US District Court for the Western District of New York, Justice Roberts lashed out at Trump for his calls to impeach radical judges.
“Well, I’ve already spoken to that and, you know, impeachment is not how you register disagreement with decisions,” Roberts said in front of hundreds of judges and lawyers.
“The judiciary is a co-equal branch of government, separate from the others, with the authority to interpret the Constitution as law and strike down, obviously, acts of Congress or acts of the president,” he said.
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