Jeremy Fogel:
Well, that concern exists. And it exists for the reason you said, because he’s done it with other people.
It hasn’t happened yet. There’s been assurances given by people in the administration that they have no intention of doing it. I am an optimist by nature, I don’t think it’s going to happen, but I’d hate to be wrong about that. And when you have a very controversial case or a judge who does something that really gets crosswise with the administration, that is one of the thoughts that comes to mind for people, is, well, the next thing he will do is pull security or pull funding or something like that.
And this is what I mean about a toxic environment. It’s, we shouldn’t be thinking and worrying about things like that. We should be thinking and worrying about, did the judge get the law right, did the judge get the facts right, what does the evidence in the case show, did everybody have a chance to be heard?
These are the things that we ought to care about. These are the things that are embedded in our Constitution. And we’re spending time kind of dealing with the emotional strain, the mental strain that comes from this kind of rhetoric that we’re seeing.
