Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Tuesday that he believes Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts knows “the danger of a president” who doesn’t “respect the Constitution” after pushback from Roberts following President Trump’s name to question a federal choose.
“I don’t know Roberts all that well, I’m not a great fan of his court, but I think he does understand, I suspect, the danger of a president who does not respect the Constitution of the United States and wants more and more power for himself,” Sanders instructed CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source.”
Sanders’s feedback come after Roberts pushed again in a uncommon public assertion to Trump calling for the impeachment of a federal choose who opposed his administration in a notable deportation case.
“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose,” Roberts mentioned in his Tuesday assertion.
In an earlier put up on Fact Social, the president referred to U.S. District Choose James Boasberg as a “troublemaker and agitator.”
“I’m just doing what the VOTERS wanted me to do,” Trump posted. “This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!”
In his “The Source” look on Tuesday, Sanders mentioned Trump “[is] trying to encroach on the constitutional responsibilities and spending powers of Congress, and now he’s going after the courts.”
“Look, if somebody is a corrupt judge, that person can and should be impeached, but not because you voice an opinion,” the Vermont senator added.
The Hill has reached out to the White Home and the Supreme Courtroom for remark.
