Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who this week condemned the attacks President Donald Trump and his allies have made against judges who are blocking the administration's policies, failed to take historic precedent into her comments, according to Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz on Newsmax Friday.
NEWSMAX -- "This is not new," Dershowitz told Newsmax's "The Record With Greta Van Susteren." "Thomas Jefferson attacked judges appointed by John Adams much, much more ferociously. [Abraham] Lincoln attacked judges, indeed, suspended the writ of habeas corpus. Franklin Delano Roosevelt intimidated judges, threatened that he would pack the court, and that resulted in the switch in time that saved nine."
Jackson, speaking at a judges' conference in Puerto Rico Thursday, said that the attacks against judges are "not random" but are designed to "intimidate those of us who serve in this critical capacity," reported Politico.
She also called the threats from the administration "attacks on our democracy, on our system of government," and said they "ultimately risk undermining our Constitution and the rule of law."
