Trump Demands Sotomayor Recusal Over ‘Inappropriate’ Dissent (1)

Feb. 25, 2020, 3:34 PM UTC

Donald Trump demanded that Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg recuse themselves from future cases involving his administration after Sotomayor wrote in an immigration case that her conservative colleagues were too quick to clear the president’s policies.

“She said some things that were obviously inappropriate,” Trump said of Sotomayor during a news conference in New Delhi on Tuesday, where he’s completing a two-day visit to India. Ginsburg voted with other liberal justices in the minority on the case but didn’t join Sotomayor’s dissent in the case, which attracted widespread attention.

WATCH: President Donald Trump explains his demand that Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg recuse themselves from future cases involving his administration.
Source: Bloomberg)

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