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A group of former federal judges sharply criticized a top Justice Department official this week for characterizing the court fights playing out in President Donald Trump’s second term as a "war" against so-called "activist judges" — remarks they described as unnecessarily inflammatory, and amounting to "pouring oil" on an already fast-burning fire.

Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, spoke colorfully last week during a fireside chat hosted by the Federalist Society. Blanche used his time to excoriate federal judges for pausing or blocking some of Trump's biggest executive orders and actions since January, and to urge young lawyers and law students in the audience to fight back. "It is a war," Blanche said, "and it is s

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