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Chief Justice Roberts denounces Trump's criticism of federal jurist as 'Obama judge'

WASHINGTON - In an exceedingly rare personal rebuke of a president by the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Wednesday denounced President Donald Trump's attack denigrating a California federal judge who had recently ruled against his asylum policy as a partisan "Obama judge."

"We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges," Roberts said in a surprise statement a day after Trump had assailed Judge Jon S. Tigar of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco and called the San Francisco-based 9th

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