Gregg Nunziata Quoted in Bloomberg Law on Trump’s Rhetoric and Judicial Retirements
Executive Director Gregg Nunziata was quoted in Bloomberg Law discussing how former President Trump’s rhetoric toward the judiciary is discouraging conservative judges from retiring — potentially limiting his ability to reshape the courts in a second term.
From the article:
Trump’s rhetoric about judges — including calling those who rule against him ‘monsters’ — hasn’t gone over well with sitting and retired judges appointed by both parties. That includes institutionalist conservative judges appointed by prior Republican presidents Trump needs to leave to create vacancies, said Gregg Nunziata, executive director of the Society for the Rule of Law, a conservative legal group that’s critical of Trump.
Nunziata said the Trump administration’s rhetoric that challenges the ‘authority and independence’ of the judiciary and ‘tarnishes judges as seditionist or saboteurs is extremely off-putting to conservative judges, even those who, in their personal politics, might be otherwise sympathetic to things that the administration wants to do.’
He added, ‘It’s not surprising that a conservative judge who values the judiciary as an institution and its indispensable role in our system would hesitate to retire or take senior status.’