President Donald Trump believes Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg should “recuse themselves on all Trump, or Trump-related, matters.”
“I only ask for fairness, especially when it comes to decisions made by the United States Supreme Court!” Trump tweeted during his quick trip to India.
A Fox News article that claims Justice Sotomayor “accused GOP appointed justices of being biased in favor of Trump” sparked Trump’s tweets. But, according to ABC News, Sotomayor has never expressed this belief.
She recently released her dissent in a controversial Supreme Court decision that allowed Trump’s “public charge” rule in Illinois, which would not allow permanent residency to many immigrants who have used government assistance such as Medicaid, food stamps or housing vouchers in the past.
In her argument, she expressed concern that the Government was placing an undue burden on the legal system with excessive cases.
“Claiming one emergency after another, the Government has recently sought stays in an unprecedented number of cases, demanding immediate attention and consuming limited Court resources in each,” she said. “And with each successive application, of course, its cries of urgency ring increasingly hollow. Indeed, its behavior relating to the public-charge rule in particular shows how much its own definition of…
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