Amy Coney Barrett Claims There’s Nothing Unprecedented About Trump’s ‘Conflicts’ with the Judiciary

Weiss: “In March, Laura Ingraham asked the president if he would defy a court order going forward, and this is what he said: ‘No, you can’t do that. However, we have bad judges. We have very bad judges, and these are judges that shouldn’t be allowed.’ I think that’s a tautology. ‘I think at a certain point, you have to start looking at what do you do when you have a rogue judge.’ Um —
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Has the president ever spoken like that about the judicial system in this country?”
CONEY Barrett: “Has — “
Weiss: “Has a president — “
CONEY Barrett: “Oh, a president.”
Weiss: “ — an American president?”
CONEY Barrett: “Let’s see. So, conflicts between the president and the judiciary are not new. They existed between Andrew Jackson and the Supreme Court. You know, even Abraham Lincoln, you know, there was some conflict. There was conflict between FDR and the Supreme Court. So I think that when we talk about the separation of powers and the balance of power and there being a tug and pull between the branches of government, this is a dance that we’ve seen before.”