Article snippet: MORE on Thursday ramped up his feud with Chief Justice John Roberts over the independence of the judiciary, carrying the extraordinary dispute into Thanksgiving. Trump, who has been bitter over a court ruling against his administration’s asylum policy, continued to target the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals throughout the day, describing it as a “thorn in our side” for being what he sees as a liberal court. He also chided the court and took a subtle shot at Roberts, who earlier this week pushed back against Trump’s attacks on a federal judge, while speaking with troops and then with reporters from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Trump wrote in a tweet Thursday morning that Roberts “can say what he wants” about the judiciary, but added that the 9th Circuit “is a complete & total disaster.” “It is out of control, has a horrible reputation, is overturned more than any Circuit in the Country, 79%, & is used to get an almost guaranteed result,” he wrote, adding in a second tweet that the court is “making our country unsafe.” He then took the conflict into a teleconference with leaders of the five branches of the military, when he lashed out at the 9th Circuit after a judge ruled earlier this week that his administration must keep accepting asylum cases from migrants regardless of how or where they enter the U.S. The ruling was actually issued by Judge Jon Tigar of the United States District Court in San Francisco, rather than by the 9th Circuit, which hears app... Link to the full article to read more