Perspective
Feb. 25, 2017
Trump and the American normal
President Trump is not the first president to express fierce opposition to a judicial ruling. But he is the first president to hold a nationally televised press conference accusing an entire United States Circuit Court of Appeals of utter, ineffectual, generalized incompetence. By Patrick D. Goodman
Patrick D. Goodman
professor of law
UCLA School Of Law
Appellate Advocacy, Remedies and Law & Popular Culture
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Email: Goodman@law.ucla.edu
Columbia Univ Law School
Patrick D. Goodman teaches Appellate Advocacy, Remedies and Law & Popular Culture at the UCLA School of Law
President Donald J. Trump is not the first president to express fierce opposition to a judicial ruling. But he is the first president to hold a nationally televised press conference accusing an entire United States Circuit Court of Appeals of utter, ineffectual, generalized incompetence. We have never seen this kind of scattershot, semi-coherent, trash talking before. It impugns the integrity and legitimacy of a large portion...
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