Cleveland federal judge says Trump's judiciary comments call president's 'legitimacy' into question

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BRATENAHL, Ohio -- A longtime Cleveland federal judge hinted that President Donald Trump's recent attacks on the judges hearing challenges to his executive order on immigration were disheartening.

U.S. District Judge Dan Polster made the comments during a speech Wednesday night to the civil rights committee of Cleveland's Anti-Defamation League without mentioning Trump's name. He noted that comments like the ones that the new president made this week could be dangerous.

"This is serious business, because you start calling into question the legitimacy of someone, that undermines the whole system, all right?" Polster said in response to a question on whether he was worried about the judiciary's status under Trump...

He said a public office holder in one government branch who makes those types of comments "calls into question his or her own legitimacy."

"I think to say it publicly, that's his right," Polster told the crowd. "But it calls into question, and some might even say forfeits, his or her own legitimacy. So I'll leave it at that. It's an important question, but that's how I feel."


read more: http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2017/02/cleveland_federal_judge_says_t.html

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1. He doesn't know or care how the Constitution works.

Just what's good for him, his bank account, his image, and his grasp on power.

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