what does that tell you about our court system? it s a very, very sad thing. let s discuss with cnn s supreme court analyst. joan, as we just saw, the president has been attacking judges and courts for quite some time, and yet here was the comment that prompted the rebuke from roberts. let s watch. well, you go to the 9th circuit and it s a tis gradisgrd i m going to put in a major complaint. this was an obama judge. i ll tell you why. it s not going to happen like this anymore. robert responded with, we do not have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges. what we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. that independent joo dish udici something we should all be thankful for. it s widely known who reports a judge, so is what trump said any
i ll put in a major complaint. this was an obama judge. and i ll tell you what, it s not going to happen like this any more. roberts then responded we do not have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges. what we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal the right those appearing before them. that independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for. on this holiday weekend we go back to a florida beach devastated bay hurricane and find people there celebrating all they have to be thankful for. your live in the cnn newsroom.
before. a lower level federal judge and an obama appointee for that matter making a ruling to effectively toward the trump administration forcing it now to go through the courts before the policy can take effect president calling the judge an obama judge which the chief justice rejected saying we do not have obama judges or trump judges. bush judges or clinton judges. what we have is an extraordinary grouch dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. that independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for. but let s be frank, given the ninth circuit s well-earned reputation for being progressive, and frequently ruling against the president, well, mr. trump said, it s high time someone called them out for their judicial activism. we re getting some terrible decisions from the ninth circuit as usual. it s a shame. it s a shame. it s a disgrace frankly. essentially they at length late. it s not right and been
cities. the president called that judge an obama judge. it s turned into a war of sorts with supreme court justice john roberts who rebuked the president saying we do not have baum judges, bush judges, clinton judges. country. kimberly at kins and allen smith are back with me now, joining the panel is criminal defense attorney, veno vagese. the 9th circuit does not have the highest rate of overturned decisions. is there any truth to what these claims are, what the president is claim something. well, this is just sort of the president s more visceral reaction to seeing a lot of these cases filed against him in the 9th circuit. this is by no means a new practice. it is a court that skews a little bit more liberal than other circuit courts in the country but the president s backlash against decisions out of the 9th circuit which are
nothing new, he s trying to sew doubt about the legitimacy of those decisions. in john roberts response he says there s no such thing for trump judges. let s wait for these cases to come before the supreme court, related to any number of policies the trump administration has been working on and let s say a judge kavanaugh or judge gorsuch does not rule in favor of the trump administration, one can really only imagine how the president would react in such a circumstance request his mindset being look, i appointed these people to the court, thinking they were going to be ruling in favor of republicans and fuelling in favor of some ruling in favor of some of my. i think the bigger issue is looking at judge roberts comment, justice roberts is saying there s no obama judges, no bush judges, no clinton judges but five of the nine supreme court justices are