A former federal prosecutor cautioned Saturday that the U.S. Supreme Court is feeling “intimidated” and “scared” by President Donald Trump’s ongoing attacks on judges and the broader judicial system as tensions escalate between the executive branch and the nation’s highest court, Newsweek reported.
Trump’s public condemnation of the judiciary has reached new levels of intensity, prompting rare and outspoken responses from members of the Supreme Court. According to former federal prosecutor Berit Berger, the Court appears increasingly unsettled by what she described as a pattern of intimidation from the president.
Berger, who spent over a decade in the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for both the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, appeared on MSNBC’s “Alex Witt Reports” on Saturday to discuss the mounting pressure on the judiciary. “They feel intimidated, they feel scared on these attacks on the judiciary, and it’s not just one or two; this has been a pattern of intimidation. Not to just judges, but to lawyers,” she said.
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