Trump administration ramps up rhetoric targeting the courts amid mounting legal setbacks
President Donald Trump greets justices of the Supreme Court, from left, Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, before addressing a joint session of Congress on March 4. Credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite
The new populist president railed against the judiciary as they blocked his aggressive moves to restructure his country’s government and economy.
This was in Mexico, where former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador eventually pushed through changes that required every judge in his country to be elected rather than appointed. The reforms, and the promise of more by his successor, caused markets to lose confidence in his country’s reliability as a place to invest, which led its currency to weaken.
It was one in a series of assaults that populists around the globe have launched on the courts in recent years, and legal observers now wonder if the United States could be next.
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