Adelman also criticized President Trump, who he wrote ran as a populist but failed to deliver “policies beneficial to the general public. ADBut coming from a sitting federal judge in a journal article accompanied by such a blunt attack on Roberts, not to mention Trump, it has attracted uncommon attention. “It has become en vogue for federal judges to criticize President Trump in such terms,” wrote conservative scholar Josh Blackman in the influential legal blog the Volokh Conspiracy. “Undoubtedly,” Adelman wrote, “large and influential sectors of the population have always opposed democratization and the extension of political rights. “Maybe someone could make an argument [for recusal] in some high-profile case about the Trump administration,” he said.

Source: Washington Post March 11, 2020 10:05 UTC