Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor — without mentioning President Donald Trump’s name — appeared during remarks at Georgetown University to be pushing back against his attacks on the legal system and said the country is going through a “troubling” amount of disrespect for the courts, attorneys, and judges.

“One of the things that’s troubling so many right now is many of the standards that are being changed right now were norms that governed officials into what was right and wrong,” Sotomayor, the senior liberal justice on the court, said during an appearance at the university’s law center in Washington, D.C., on Friday, reports Politico.

She added that “once norms are broken, then you’re shaking some of the foundation of the rule of law.”

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