{"id":69837,"date":"2017-03-27T10:46:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T14:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=69837"},"modified":"2017-03-27T10:49:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T14:49:01","slug":"trump-slams-own-scotus-nominee-ill-criticize-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=69837","title":{"rendered":"Trump Slams Own SCOTUS Nominee: &#8216;I&#8217;ll Criticize Judges&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->By Jeffrey Rodack<br \/>\nNEWSMAX<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump: &quot;The courts are not helping us&#8230;it&#39;s ridiculous. Someone said I should not criticize judges. OK, I&#39;ll criticize judges.&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/mYzCbpyfH0\">pic.twitter.com\/mYzCbpyfH0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveKopack\/status\/844340214143356928\">March 22, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump appeared to slam his own Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch in a speech to Republicans,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/trump-slams-his-own-supreme-court-nominee-ill-criticize-judges\/\"><strong> Mediaite<\/strong><\/a> is reporting.<\/p>\n<p>During confirmation hearings, Gorsuch said he was not comfortable with presidential attacks against federal judges, according to the website.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When anyone criticizes the honesty, the integrity, the motives of a federal judge, well, I find that disheartening, I find that demoralizing,&#8221; he said<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/03\/21\/politics\/neil-gorsuch-trump-criticism-disheartening\/\"><strong>CNN<\/strong><\/a> reported he was asked if &#8220;anyone&#8221; included the president.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anyone is anyone,&#8221; Gorsuch replied.<\/p>\n<p>But in his speech at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner, Trump said he will continue to criticize judges.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The courts are not helping us, I have to be honest with you,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;It&#8217;s ridiculous. Somebody said I should not criticize judges. OK, I&#8217;ll criticize judges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And Mediaite noted: &#8220;Though the statement was classic Trump, it was an extraordinary moment given that the &#8216;somebody&#8217; Trump was referring to was his own Supreme Court nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, White House press secretary Sean Spicer\u00a0said it was &#8220;wrong and misleading&#8221; to say Gorsuch called Trump&#8217;s attacks on judges &#8220;disheartening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/Trump-Slams-Neil-Gorsuch\/2017\/03\/22\/id\/780112\/\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Politics\/Trump-Slams-Neil-Gorsuch\/2017\/03\/22\/id\/780112\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}