Jeffrey Toobin: Some Republican Judges ‘Deranged By Their Hatred Of The President’

CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin has been front and center covering the health care battle in the Supreme Court — and he hasn’t shied away from expressing his opinions. Keeping with that pattern, on Thursday, Toobin criticized the appeals court that demanded President Obama explain his view of courts’ power. Furthermore, he remarked that some Republican judges are “deranged by their hatred of the president.”

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“I think what these judges have done is a disgrace,” Toobin said. “What President Obama said was entirely appropriate. There is nothing wrong, there’s nothing controversial.” In his view, it did not warrant a “homework assignment” (which the Justice Department did complete, albeit shorter in length).

Toobin continued:

“That was a perfectly appropriate comment by the president and it just shows how some of these Republican judges are just deranged by hatred of the president. The president has no leverage over the Supreme Court. He can’t threaten. What’s he going to threaten to do? ‘If you rule this way, I’m not going to invite you to a State dinner’?”

Take a look, via CNN:

(H/T POLITICO)

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