A federal judge compared Donald Trump to Henry II for his blatant efforts to punish his administration’s critics.
While overseeing a lawsuit Monday concerning the Trump administration’s crackdown on non-citizens’ pro-Palestinian speech, U.S. District Judge Willliam Young referred to the 12th-century English king while mulling whether the president’s penchant for publicizing his every personal problem ever inspired his underlings to take action.
Young cited Henry II’s famous line, “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?” The offhand remark led errant knights to murder Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who’d sought to increase the power of the Catholic Church.
Trump “doesn’t have errant knights, but he’s got Stephen Miller,” Young quipped, according to Politico’s senior legal correspondent Kyle Cheney.
Young pointed out that whenever the president had a problem with someone, especially in government, that person tended to find themselves facing a spate of problems they hadn’t had before. For example, after Trump had his explosive feud with Elon Musk, the government began to review its contracts with SpaceX. After beefing for months with Senator Adam Schiff, last week, the president accused him of “mortgage fraud” and said he should “pay the price of prison.”
Young also questioned Trump’s motor-mouthed attitude, while his administration appeared intent on violating the First Amendment.
“The president is a master of speech and certainly brilliantly uses his right to free speech,” said Young. “Whether he recognizes or not whether other people have any right to free speech is questionable.”
Last week, Young heard testimony from four veteran officers from the Department of Homeland Security, who recounted their superiors’ unusual requests to arrest green card holders and non-citizen academics who had committed no crime.
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