In another round of late-night social media posts, President Donald Trump attacked the Supreme Court for not overturning his loss in the 2020 presidential election \u2014 and tried to pressure the court to rule his way in future election cases.<\/p>\n
Flurries of angry social media posts are not unusual for Trump, but this one was particularly alarming for its scope and the criticism it directed against the nation\u2019s highest court, where six out of nine justices are conservatives and three are Trump appointees.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey wouldn\u2019t even call out The Rigged Presidential Election of 2020, because they said that I, as President of the United States, did not have \u2018standing\u2019 to challenge it,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n
Trump was referring to the Supreme Court declining to hear<\/a> a 2020 lawsuit filed by Texas and supported by 18 Republican state attorneys general and 106 Republican members of Congress that sought to invalidate former President Joe Biden\u2019s victories in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThis completely inept and embarrassing Court was not what the Supreme Court of the United States was set up by our wonderful Founders to be,\u201d the president added. \u201cThey are hurting our Country, and will continue to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n Since returning to office, Trump has relentlessly attacked lower court judges for being \u201crogue\u201d or \u201cbad\u201d when they\u2019ve ruled against his administration\u2019s policies, but he had largely held off on directly condemning the Supreme Court in the rare moments it rebuffed his aggressive attempts to expand presidential power.<\/p>\n That all changed last month when Trump erupted<\/a> on the Supreme Court after it declared<\/a>\u00a0that he violated federal law by unilaterally imposing sweeping tariffs across the globe last year.<\/p>\n After the ruling, Trump accused \u201ccertain\u201d Supreme Court justices of being \u201cunpatriotic and disloyal.\u201d Though he never said their names, his inflammatory statements were directed at Chief Justice John Roberts and Trump-appointed Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch.<\/p>\n In addition to going after the Supreme Court, Trump Sunday night berated Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and James Boasberg, the chief judge of District Court for D.C.\u00a0<\/p>\n On Friday, Boasberg quashed<\/a> two grand jury subpoenas issued by Trump loyalist Jeanine Pirro, the\u00a0 U.S. attorney for Washington D.C., against the Federal Reserve and Powell.<\/p>\n Though Trump appointed Powell in his first term, the president has repeatedly attacked the chairman for not reducing interest rates as quickly as he would like.\u00a0<\/p>\n The criminal investigation Pirro launched against Powell<\/a>, which was denounced by both Democrats and Republicans, related to renovation at the Fed\u2019s headquarters, though it clearly stemmed from Trump\u2019s desire to increase his influence over the Fed and enact retribution on the chairman.<\/p>\n While dismissing the subpoenas, Boasberg excoriated<\/a> the DOJ for attempting to initiate a probe against Powell and the central bank, calling it political persecution aimed at pressuring the Fed chair to lower interest rates.<\/p>\n In one of his posts Sunday night, Trump lamented that Powell was \u201cnot even allowed to be investigated\u201d and said Boasberg should \u201csuffer serious disciplinary action\u201d and be barred from presiding over all cases involving the Trump administration for quashing Pirro\u2019s probe.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cIn case after case, Boasberg has displayed open, flagrant, and extreme partisan bias and contempt against Republicans and the Trump Administration,\u201d Trump wrote, adding that the judge was \u201cWacky, Nasty, Crooked, and totally Out of Control.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhat Boasberg has done on the \u2018Too Late\u2019 Powell case, and many others, has little to do with the Law, and everything to do with Politics,\u201d Trump wrote, adding, \u201cCases don\u2019t matter, the Judge does!\u201d<\/p>\n Last year, Attorney General Pam Bondi, one of Trump\u2019s former attorneys, sought to punish Boasberg by filing a formal misconduct complaint<\/a> against him. Bondi claimed that he violated the judicial code of conduct by raising concerns to Chief Justice John Roberts about the Trump administration possibly ignoring future court orders.<\/p>\n A high-ranking federal appeals judge tossed the complaint<\/a> last month. However, Boasberg has also become the leading target<\/a> of a judicial impeachment effort<\/a> by Trump\u2019s allies in Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In another round of late-night social media posts, President Donald Trump attacked the Supreme Court for not overturning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-527297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}