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US chief justice scolds Trump over judges threat

Washington | The US chief justice publicly rebuked Donald Trump on Tuesday (Wednesday AEDT) for urging the impeachment of a federal judge, laying bare tensions between the president and the judiciary as Trump’s sweeping assertions of power run into legal roadblocks.

In a rare statement, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote: “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision.”

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