think we have activist judges anywhere? i m a defense attorney now. i go to court raymond: you worked for the reagan administration. you don t think there s activist judges? i pulled this. judge carlton reeds struck down the 15-day abortion ban in mississippi. he overruled the entire legislature there, the entire state s will and he said men are involved in this. who created roe v. wade? nine guys. if you don t like a decision, you go to the court of appeals. this decision was from a district court judge. it s not been to the ninth circuit. it can be a mixed bag raymond: should it be broken up? trump wants to. no. it would be a great idea. this is travel ban deja vu all over again. trump will succeed when this goes up. raymond: very good. thank you both for being here. thank you, joe, for your
then, joe? and he s speaking out now? why this moment? it s very simple. president obama was a democrat. president trump is a republican. john roberts judgment in this is so abysmal. so bad. so apparently political in its motivation, so opportunistic. it really is appalling. i m embarrassed for the court. i feel very sorry for the other members of the court. i really think the chief justice made a major mistake with regards to it. talk about he himself now has undercut the independence of the court by becoming involved in a political discussion. it s a very sad day for the court. raymond: thank you, joe. john, your reaction. do you agree with joe? you think this is raising the political temperature rather than lowering it? 100%. the chief justice is talking out
we have to appeal it, appeal it. a vast number of their decisions get overturned generally speaking. it s a shame. it s a shame. it s a disgrace, frankly. essentially they re legislating and it s not right. it s been going on like that a long time. we have to use common sense. the ninth circuit, everybody knows it s totally out of control. online, chuck grassley said this. he said chief justice roberts rebuked trump for a comment that he made about a judge s decision on asylum. i don t recall the chief attacking obama when that president rebuked justice alito during a state of the union. clearly a snapshot of the intensity of this debate, especially as it involved this administration and the ninth circuit. raymond? thank you, kevin. joining me now, three legal experts, former u.s. attorney joe degenvena, david cats and
criminal defense attorney, jonah spillborn. jonah, your reaction to chief justice roberts scolding the president and insisting there s no partisan judges, joe. well, i think the chief justice s comments were blatantly inappropriate. he injected himself in a political discussion about the effect of the court. he never should have done that particularly after the debacle of the kavanaugh hearings. the chief justice arrogantly and i underscore that, stepped into it was a major mistake by the chief justice and he has been quiet because he made a terrible mistake. whatever he thought of the president s remarks, it s in not his responsibility to rebuke the president of the united states, which is what he was doing. after sitting there in january
i don t know if we have ever had a victory there. we have to appeal it, appeal it. a vast number of their decisions get overturned generally speaking. it s a shame. it s a shame. it s a disgrace, frankly. essentially they re legislating and it s not right. it s been going on like that a long time. we have to use common sense. the ninth circuit, everybody knows it s totally out of control. online, chuck grassley said this. he said chief justice roberts rebuked trump for a comment that he made about a judge s decision on asylum. i don t recall the chief attacking obama when that president rebuked justice alito during a state of the union. clearly a snapshot of the intensity of this debate, especially as it involves this administration and the ninth circuit. raymond? thank you, kevin. joining me now, three legal experts, former u.s. attorney joe degenvena, david cats and criminal defense attorney, jonah