February 25, 2020 🟡 Significant

Demands Justices Sotomayor and Ginsburg recuse themselves from all 'Trump related' cases

After Justice Sonia Sotomayor authored a dissent accusing the conservative Supreme Court majority of being too quick to grant the administration emergency relief, Trump tweeted that both Sotomayor and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg should recuse themselves from any case involving him. Speaking at a news conference in New Delhi, India, he doubled down, saying he did not see how the justices could 'not recuse themselves for anything having to do with Trump or Trump-related.' Legal commentators characterized the demand as an attempt to delegitimize sitting justices whose rulings might not favor him, targeting the independence of the judiciary. The tweet misspelled Ginsburg's name and cited her 2016 comments calling him a 'faker.'

"This is a terrible thing to say. Trying to "shame" some into voting her way? She never criticized Justice Ginsberg when she called me a "faker". Both should recuse themselves.." Quote verified against source