Awkward? What to expect from Trump-Supreme Court beef at State of the Union

Jeremy Dalrymple, an associate director of the center-right R Street Institute, said this kind of tension between a president and the court isn’t abnormal.

“It’s inherent to the system that we have. This is why we have the separation of powers,” Dalrymple said. “He’s free to make the comments that he wants about it. Whether the justices take that into account, I don’t think they should. They need to a de novo review of whatever cases come before them.”