Judges, including one of his own Supreme Court appointees, are trying to rein President Trump in. In return, Trump is threatening to impeach judges. This episode was produced by Gabrielle Berbey and Devan Schwartz, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett During President Donald Trump's address to Congress earlier this month. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What is the biggest story right now involving Trump and judges?
The biggest story in the country right now is one of gross incompetence. By now, you've surely heard about the group chat where a bunch of our nation's top security brass accidentally added a journalist to a signal thread where plans to bomb Houthis in Yemen were laid out. The president of the United States said it's news to him.
I don't know anything about it. I'm not a big fan of the Atlantic.
The Fox News Secretary of Defense is trying to discredit the journalist who was added to the chat against his will. You're talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist. And Speaker Mike Johnson says everyone did a great job.
What you did see, though, I think, was top-level officials doing their job, doing it well.
The federal government is not in its accountability era, but somehow, concurrently, this administration is calling for federal judges to be impeached for doing their actual jobs. That is coming up on Today Explained.
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