During an appearance on MSNBC, Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus Laurence Tribe painted a portrait of Donald Trump’s “lawless” assault on the judiciary that he believes will lead to a wave of violence.Speaking with host Ali Velshi, Tribe, long a Trump critic, claimed that the president’s incendiary comments about U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who has been holding the administration to account for defying his orders to halt the deportation of Venezuelan nationals accused of being gang members, raises the threat level for any judge who opposes his illegal actions.Calling Boasberg a “well-respected judge,” Tribe decried that the attacks, which have included calls for impeachment, and suggested the end result is “ominous.”ALSO READ: ‘I miss lynch mobs’: The secretary of retribution’s followers are getting impatient He elaborated, “He [Trump] is trying to scare everybody by saying, ‘You better follow my orders or we’ll never know what’s going to happen.” And then, judges fear being shot –– all kinds of terrible things are going on.””It’s a pretty specific target,” host Velshi agreed before adding, “He’s referred to Judge Boasberg as a radical left lunatic. This is a judge who was appointed first to the bench by George W Bush, and then to his current role by Barack Obama. In all my reading of him, I don’t know where you one would find either radical or left or lunatic.”Calling impeachment of judges a threat to the independent judiciary, Tribe told the MSNBC host, “One of the pillars of the rule of law that prevents us from becoming a complete dictatorship, or an oligarchy, or an autocracy of some other kind, is the idea that the judiciary is independent –– it doesn’t always have the last word.”Warning that is not “how a country that is based on law and order and self-government can ever survive,” he then accused, “And that’s why I think the virus that has been spreading ever since the January 6th insurrection has got to be combated with all the tools at our disposal.”You can watch below or at the link:
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