KEILAR: President Trump is renewing his attacks on Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg today. His jabs come after Justice Sotomayor sharply criticized the government for repeatedly asking the court for stays in cases related to Trump's policies but denying applications for non-Trump cases. She also questioned the court's conservative majority for being too eager to side with the White House in such requests, and here's what the president said today.</s>TRUMP: I just don't know how they cannot recuse themselves for anything having to do with Trump or Trump related. Her statement was so inappropriate when you're a justice of the Supreme Court. And it's almost what she's trying to do is get the people who do feel a different way and get them to vote the way that she would like them to vote.</s>KEILAR: Irin Carmon is the author of the book, Notorious RBG. She is a Senior Correspondent for New York Magazine. Irin, thank you so much for joining us. And I want to start first with Justice Sotomayor and what has happened here, and the president just criticizing her. But let's talk about this volume of requests that's she's complaining about clogging up the court. Just give us a sense of what's going on there.</s>IRIN CARMON, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: I think the context here is really important, because Justice Sotomayor is using exactly the outlet that a Supreme Court justice is supposed to use. Her dissent, she's clearly in seven pages laying out the facts of what she sees here as objectively extraordinary, and what was a 5-4 decision to deny a stay in a so-called public charge regulation that the Trump administration asked the court to stop a lower court's decision on. So for your context, Steve Vladeck, who is the Professor at the University of Texas Law School, recently published a study that shows that during the Obama and Bush administrations, so in 16 years, there were only eight extraordinary requests to block the lower court's sort of --
Trump Says, Sotomayor, Ginsburg Should Be Recused From Cases Involving Him.