The prime minister, David Cameron, has said the CPS was "absolutely right" (video) to label Colover's comments inappropriate, while the shadow justice secretary, Sadiq Khan, said the judge should take the opportunity to apologise to the victim at the hearing.
Isn't this job inappropriate for a former Supreme Court justice?
Justice Brock, who a court spokesman said was not available today for comment, contended at his news conference on Monday that Justice Thayer's inappropriate statements had had no effect and complained that the attorney general was suggesting "that a few minutes of aberrant behavior by a single justice constitutes the ongoing practice and procedures of this court".
Trump himself jumped into the controversy on Tuesday, calling Ginsburg's remarks in the thick of a presidential election "highly inappropriate" for a sitting Supreme Court justice.
It would be inappropriate, he held, for the justices to "countenance" that war, "which consists of efforts to make it impossible for the states to obtain drugs that could be used to carry out capital punishment with little, if any pain".Justice Antonin Scalia extended this line of reasoning.
Sending the case back for reconsideration, Justice Alito wrote, was inappropriate.
"We are not convinced that as an aged felon Marshall should be categorically immune from incarceration," the decision said, "and it is generally inappropriate to use the interest of justice as a device for granting dispensations from mandatory sentencing statutes".
It's a strange week when Donald Trump – known for his provocations and unconventional behavior – lectures a Supreme Court justice on what's "highly inappropriate," and many legal experts say he's right.
Some argue that the kind of retributive justice offered by the ICC is inappropriate in Africa.
The statement continued: "This has been wholly inappropriate and outwith the fundamental principles of natural justice.
