And to be blunt, I would say that your anti-Trump bias goes a long way into "filling in the lines".

For #1 : again, one of the major issues in the immigration order cases *is* the extent of executive power, as the enabling legislation gave the president the power to delay "at his discretion". There is still nothing in this tweet that concretely convinces or evidences this solely as a "he doesnt know the bounds of the court."

And to be honest, #1 actually acknowledges the power and role of the court, notwithstanding your assertion to the contrary. If you are po'ed that a litigant has the temerity to callout a court on what they think is a bad decision, that is one thing. But stretching this to a basic misunderstanding of the court is another horse of a different color.

As for #2, it is buried in WashPo site article. Sorry, used up all my free articles at this point. So I really can't comment.

I did find a reference in whole via Slate

Quote:“I have to be honest that, if these judges wanted to, in my opinion help the court in terms of respect for the court, they'd do what they should be doing,” Trump said. “It's so sad.”

Again this really doesn't seem to be a clear case of "not understanding the court system". If you don't like Trump making comments about cases not going his way, that is your preference and you would be correct on this. But again, it is at best unclear that he has no "fundamental knowledge" of the courts or court system through this statement.

As for the third, again, this sounds like a petulant person politicing in the way he knows best to reach an audience about his view of a wanted outcome or an outcome just decided. And again you would be correct perhaps for the 'decorum' factor. But, I cannot tell you how many times I have uttered "see you in court". I do not think that at any time the veracity of my knowledge of the working of the court system would be impacted by that statement, nor do I impute any understanding, or misunderstanding, of the role of the judiciary in that tweet.

As for decorum issues, agree with you 10000 per cent that it isn't really the job of a tweet from a president to be doing this. But it still seems an awfully long stretch to make this into a "lack if understanding in the role of judges" in particular, or of the judicial branch in general.

To be blunt, this belongs in the same crapola bin that Obama threw at the Supreme Court vis a vis the comment on Citizen's United ruling during the State of the Union address a while back. In both cases, the lack of decorum and politicization of a judicial issue was very high, but neither indicate to me a lack of understanding of the role.

Indicates a lack of decorum : yep, no doubt
Indicates a basic lack of understanding the role of judges : still a really long leap here for me