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Trump's latest maneuvering will 'not sit well with John Roberts': legal expert

The Donald Trump administration's abrasive battles with judges combined with new news that the president bullied a highly-regarded law firm into submission is not going unnoticed by members of the Supreme Court and could come back to haunt him.

That is the opinion of Politico's Senior Legal Affairs correspondent Josh Gerstein who appeared on MSNBC on Friday morning and claimed Trump may be pushing conservative Chief Justice John Roberts into the arms of the court's liberal wing.

During his appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Gerstein was asked by a "Morning Joe" regular about the president's DOJ "probing" attacks to see how far they can go with criticizing judges as they test legal limits of ignoring court orders.

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"I mean, there's one thing here, which is there are nine very important people that are watching this all play out and a lot of these fights, if they are not settled, are going to end up at the Supreme Court," he predicted.

"And people I've been talking to in the legal community think things like going after the big law firms, for example, along with the words that Trump and even officials like the attorney general have been using about Judge James