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The former US Supreme Court of Justice Anthony Kennedy warned that the tone of political discourse and threats to judges undermining the ability of the US to serve as an example of freedom and democracy around the world.
Kennedy, reacted named who retired in 2018. during the first term of President Donald Trump, he spoke during a virtual forum on threats lawHow he defended the role of judges in democracy and advocated the need to protect them and their families from threats.
“Many in the rest of the world are looking at the United States to see what democracy is, to see what democracy was to be,” Kennedy said during the event “speaks for justice”, one day before the current current Supreme court Justice are placed to submit their final judgments on the current term.
“If they see hostile, broken discourse, if they see the discourse that uses the identity policy, not discussing issues, democracy is at risk. Freedom is at risk,” he continued.
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The former US Supreme Court of Justice Anthony Kennedy warned that the “tone of our political discourse” and threats to the presence of the United States to serve as an example of freedom around the world. (Getty Images)
Kennedy did not mention Trump, even while other participants expressed concerns about the threats of the President of the Political Agenda during his second term, including his immigration policies, the patients of federal workers and its use of broad tariffs.
But Kennedi’s remarks seemed to be honest, at least partially Trump Administration Repeated attacks against judges who ruled against him, including some who appointed during their first term.
In March, Trump criticized James Boasberg’s District Court as a “radical left lunatic” after trying to block the administration to remove the alleged members of Venezuelan gangs under the party legal representative, he referred to alien enemies.
Last month, Trump attacked “American” judges hate like “monsters who want our country to go to hell.”
Trump’s rhetoric came along with threats to judges, although the administration portpapes said the president against any threats and to face the criminal prosecutor’s office and will face the prosecution.
Kennedy, Reagan Meteonee, defended the role of judges in democracy and advocated the need to protect them and their families from threats. (Getty Images)
Kennedy said that “judges must have protection for themselves and their families” and that “judges are best protected when public and our nation realize how central are in our discourse.”
“We should take care of this country, as I already indicated, the tone of our political discourse,” he said. “Identity policy is used to make a person characterized by its partisan affiliation. It is not what is not democracy and civil discourse.”
Other participants in the Forum, who presented judges from the United States and other countries, how to attack the courts can threaten democracy, also aimed that Trump’s statement condemned her to Trump statement that condemned the courts.
Without the mentioned Trump named, American District Judge Ester Salas, whose son killed into his new jersey to the house of 2020. years, said the misdeeds of judges is wider “from resist”, with legal lawyers “and” corrupt “.
Kennedi’s remarks appeared, at least partially, repeated attacks of Trump’s administration against judges who ruled against him. (Getty Images)
“Judges are thieves. Sound-famous? Judges are corrupt. Suddenly familiar? Judges are monsters. … Judges hate America,” Salas said. “We see the expansion of misinformation that comes from the bottom downward.”
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Salas warned that the number of threats recorded against judges this year in the United States, noting that American marshal service followed more than 400 threats since January, when it was also open Trump.
“We’ll break the records, people, not in a good way,” she said.
Reuters contributed to this report.
