The Trump vs. Roberts Controversy

It's tough for me with Donald Trump as my president.  On one hand, I happen to agree in principle with some of the things he is trying to accomplish, particularly in building up our national defense and protecting our borders...this I believe is a Constitutionally-mandated role for him as our country's civilian commander-in-chief.  On the other hand, his arrogance, narcissism, and nastiness towards those who disagree with him makes him as a kind of villain in my mind, someone whose presence in the Oval Office is a detriment to our national interests.  Case in point: he has a legitimate responsibility, in my opinion, to protect our borders from the "caravan" of people traveling from Central America and through Mexico to our national border.  The Ninth Circuit of the Federal Judiciary, however, blocked him from keeping asylum seekers from entering the United States...prompting him to go into a Twitter rage, putting down those judges as Obama appointees, as if that in itself makes them illegitimate.  United States Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts responded by calling him to task for his inappropriate comments, stating "We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges.  What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them." And this is what bugs me so much: President Trump is probably right in his accusations about the Ninth Circuit judges, but he also has deliberately sought to politicize the courts with his own appointments, which are rubberstamped by conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society.  Roberts himself was no doubt appointed because of his conservative political orientation and has usually "delivered the goods" for his conservative backers in Supreme Court decisions.  You can claim that the judges are "independent", but this does not necessarily mean that they cannot be biased...and in my opinion they usually are when decisions of a politically partisan nature are involved: all of the federal judges are political appointees.  So while Chief Justice Roberts put out a dignified, restrained and appropriately worded statement expressing what I believe to be an erroneous viewpoint, President Trump for his part has done little of a positive nature to promote a position which I believe has some good points. It's very frustrating rooting for policies that are being promoted by a president who seems clueless about persuading others...