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| Thomas H. Dupree Jr., who was principal deputy assistant attorney general in former President George W. Bush's Department of Justice (DOJ), told MS NOW anchor Katy Tur that judges from respectable conservative backgrounds are increasingly sounding the alarm on Trump's unconstitutional actions. 'I guess one thing that has surprised me in all of this, in all the legal back-and-forth, is that there are some very conservative judges' who clerked for Justice [Antonin] Scalia who have spoken out very explicitly about this,' said Dupree, speaking of Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz (a George W. Bush appointee), who has expressed growing frustration with the Trump administration's tactics in court. |
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