Good Law | Bad Law

Is President Trump trying to delegitimize the Federal Judiciary?   Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by Professor Steve Vladek, of the University of Texas, to discuss the Thanksgiving Week war of words between Chief Justice Roberts and President Donald Trump.   On today’s episode, Aaron and Steve talk about the comments made by both Chief Justice Roberts and Donald Trump regarding the case that was recently decided in a federal court in California that struck down the President’s Executive Order limiting those seeking asylum at the Mexican border.  The federal trial court  -- not the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, as the President inaccurately claimed – ruled that the President’s action was inconsistent with the clear language of the immigration law, 8 U.S.C. 1158. (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1158)   In a series of tweets, the President railed against the Ninth Circuit, claiming the decision was the product of an