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What Trump truly fears when he lashes out at the Supreme Court
What happened
AlterNet reports that Atlantic writer Adam Serwer identifies Trump’s fear as the possibility that public criticism can influence Supreme Court justices. Serwer argues that Trump projects this fear when he attributes rulings against him to pressure from the “Radical Left,” then attacks the Court himself in hopes of shaping its next decision.
During his 2024 campaign, Trump suggested that criticizing Supreme Court rulings should bring “very serious fines and beyond that.” After a majority of the justices rejected his effort to restrict voting by mail in the midterms, however, he…
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