i ll answer that in this way. i think we are allowed to be critical of people in public life. i think if we think a judge has made a mistake well, of course! just a second. where it strays into the unacceptable is when it becomes personal, when, like in the judge curiel circumstance but what about when you question a judge s authority? well as in the washington state case? i think you can question a judge s authority as long as what you say is i don t believe you are right, i m going to take an appeal to the next level. what the president s done, i think to be fair, is he s respected those orders. where you would undermine the judiciary is if a judge puts an order in effect and he says to general kelly of homeland security at the time, to hell with it, don t listen to the order, keep doing what i told you to do. if you say i think they re dead wrong and i and i use the judicial process to go up, as he did, i think that shows respect for the system. where i think the