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^^ There would have been no exchange had activist judges not usurped the power of the executive by using the court to advance their own political agendas. The President has given no indication that he is a racist or racially biased against any nationality. Democrats made that charge during his campaign and media and Dems continue to push that falsehood to this day. But there is not a scintilla of evidence to support a finding where the President's supposed biases are used against him. That's been an ongoing political argument, not a legal argument.

Roberts knows his extended team is comprised of a bunch of loons who do not feel particularly beholden to the law as written, and he should not have defended some podunk judge that felt compelled to personally challenge the President of the United States, and force the millions of people whom find themselves beset by invaders from the south, to endure even more hardship.

You obsess over polishing up your point of view, which I believe is influenced by your desire to see Trump put in the place you'd like to see him, while ignoring the reality of the situation. The US Constitution vests the power of immigration control in the person of the President. Illegal immigration has escalated from singles and small groups to columns numbering in the thousands. There's no defending that sort of thing and I don't believe for one second that Scalia would have defended any judge engaged in challenging the Constitutional powers of the Presidency.

I am not ignoring the "reality of the situation." The reality of the situation is that Trump failed to secure funding for a border wall, lost control of the House, continues to squander what little political capital that he has by tweeting childish personal insults that ultimately undermine his own position, and is increasingly looking like a lame duck, one term president.

The immigration cases are making their way through the courts and Trump is not going to get a decision overturned by Twitter. Trump's fight should not be with the Supreme Court and its Chief Justice - he needs them to decide which cases to hear.

At best, Trump's tweets criticizing the federal courts and the judges that his predecessors appointed make him look ridiculous and at worst they may make it less likely that Roberts and his court will take up as many immigration cases.

Neither of us know how Scalia would have responded to Trump's criticism of the federal courts but if he defended Ruth Bader Ginsburg against outsiders, and he did, it is not hard for this conservative to imagine that Scalia would have advised Trump to worry about his own branch of government and leave the inferior federal courts to Congress and the Supreme Court, as Tthe Constitution dictates.

Twitter is no way to run a country. Trump is not winning any friends or defeating any enemies with his tweets, so what is the point of wasting so much time and energy on them?

When is the last time you recall personally witnessing somebody not named Donald J. Trump taunting another person by making fun of their name or looks? For me, I was in high school but it was far more common in grade school.