The Times of Our Nation are as Dangerous as This

   President Trump is calling for two of the Supreme Court justices, likely to vote against him, to step away when cases involving him come up.
 Is this intimidation? Could ever it lead to pressure great enough that they are forced to step aside? Suppose someone did a poll -- not an unlikely thing, at all -- and it came back showing the majority of Americans agreed justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor should step aside for cases involving Trump? Could Trump's call for their removal, together with public pressure, lead to them actually recusing themselves?
  Worse: Could they ever be forced by presidential decree to step away on cases involving Trump? You might suppose that would never happen. Me? I look at all he has done, and do not rule it an impossibility. At all.
  Courts should be beholden to justice, and to justice, alone. Those appointed by Trump already are indebted to him. It is wrong to eyeball those who might oppose you and seek their removal. Now, yes, there are those in this country who do see the danger in what Trump is doing. But, many do not. Indeed, many will join him in calling for Ginsburg and Sotomayor to recuse themselves. Many will even be outraged that the two are allowed on the court.
  The times of our nation are as dangerous as this.