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'Unwilling to admit the truth or unwilling to follow the law': How Trump is changing the judiciary - Velshi - MSNBC
During his first term in office, Donald Trump succeeded in shaping the federal judiciary, including by transforming the ideological makeup of the Supreme Court. Now that he’s back in the White House, he’s looking to do it again. “We have an administration that is now looking for judges who are…going against the grain,” University of Michigan law professor Leah Litman tells Melissa Murray. “I don’t know if that means that they’re now looking for judges who are unwilling to admit the truth or unwilling to follow the law.”
As the White House begins its search for new people to appoint this term, Politico’s Josh Gerstein notes that there appears to have been a falling out between Trump and the Federalist society. “It does seem like Trump and some of his advisors would like to go in a different direction to get sort of more aggressive, more extreme judges than they did in the first term.” - Aired on 04/06/2025.