Federal judge says Donald Trump is not a legitimate president
Since being named the winner of the 2016 presidential election under the most suspect of Russian-colluded circumstances, Donald Trump has been told by any number of people that he’s not a legitimate president. Millions of Americans have taken to the streets to say it. Congressmen have said it. And now that Trump has begun personally attacking federal judges who rule against his unconstitutional actions, one of those judges is positing that Trump isn’t legitimate.
After Trump derisively referred to a federal judge as a “so-called judge” for ruling against his executive order, another federal judge – U.S. District Judge Dan Polster of Cleveland — has pushed back in response during a speech. Polster began by pointing out the dangers of the road that Trump is going down: “This is serious business, because you start calling into question the legitimacy of someone, that undermines the whole system, all right?” But then he took a more assertive turn.
Judge Polster added that when someone in the Executive Branch like Donald Trump begins calling into question the legitimacy of the judges whose rulings he doesn’t like, “it calls into question, and some might even say forfeits, his or her own legitimacy.” Polster managed to never mention Trump’s name during the course of his comments, even going so far as to use the “his or her” phrasing to position his remarks as generally as possible. But it couldn’t have been more clear that he was referring to Trump.
And so now we have one of our federal judges, who by tradition rarely speak their minds about such things, positing that Donald Trump’s insults hurled at judges mean he’s not a legitimate president, as relayed by Cleveland.com. Some observers have suggested that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling was also an attempt at protecting the Judiciary Branch against an out of control Trump.
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