One of the realities of living in our divided and rabidly partisan world is that once normal actions are exaggerated greatly into heinous acts. This is true of both left and right. The DoJ is responding to Sotomayor’s TRO. They are making a legal argument,a preposterous one but it’s their argument. Responding to a judge’s ruling is not in any way “pressuring” the judge. Are there pressures being applied behind closed doors? Maybe. But it’s not what this article is talking about.
This article is rather misleading in this one respect. The Obama Administration isn't "pressuring" Justice Sotomayor. When Justice Sotomayor issued the order in question, granting the temporary injunction, she requested that the Department of Justice file by today a written response, to the extent that Justice was arguing against the continuation of the injunction.
The Department of Justice has now filed its response, per Justice Sotomayor's request, that's all. That's how the process is supposed to work.
How do they do that? SCOTUS is a completely separate branch.
Obama is probably just applying the same methods he used on Justice Roberts. Hey, it worked once. Might as well go for two.
Pressuring a judge...illegal? Not in the post-Constitutional regency of bh0, where his diktat is law.
The Judicial Branch has become Legislative and totally ignore the Constitution in their rulings. The Executive Branch has become Legislative. The Legislative Branch only seem to care about status quo and their "phony baloney jobs". The States and the People try rein in the madness only to get overturned by Federal Courts. The endgame is here. What will it be?
If they are really pressuring her it would not turn up in this article.
She’d be getting dead fish in the mail, or a menacing visit from a man in a trenchcoat in the parking lot, or whatever they did to John Roberts.