Stephen Breyer Calls Chief’s Rebuke of Trump Appropriate (1)

Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said Chief Justice John Roberts did the right thing in releasing a public statement pushing back on President Donald Trump’s calls to impeach a judge who ruled against him.

“He’s trying to explain to the people of this country how the legal system works and how it doesn’t work,” he said in a live interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN Wednesday morning. “It doesn’t work by impeaching a judge ‘cause you don’t like his decision.”

Breyer’s interview comes a day after Roberts made a rare public statement rebuking Trump’s calls for Judge James Boasberg, ...