1/ Trump demanded that Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg recuse themselves from “all Trump, or Trump-related” cases. On Twitter, Trump accused Sotomayor of trying to “shame” other justices into “voting her way” after she issued a dissent last week that the court has been too quick to grant “emergency” relief to the federal government. Sotomayor’s dissent came following the court’s majority allowing the Trump administration to proceed with a plan to deny green cards to immigrants who are deemed likely to become a “public charge.” Trump also tweeted that Sotomayor “never criticized Justice Ginsberg when she called me a ‘faker’” – referring to Ginsberg’s July 2016 criticism that she could not imagine then-candidate Trump as president. (New York Times / Washington Post / NPR / CNN / CNBC / Politico / The Guardian)
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2020/02/25/day-1132/