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TOWNHALL | Published March 19, 2025
President Donald J. Trump was right to go scorched Earth on little District Judge James Boasberg, who is violating the separation of powers by enjoining the executive in some legal gobbledygook about the president not being able to deport foreign terrorists. Boasberg ruled that the Trump administration couldn’t invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to accelerate the deportation of Venezuelan gang members—Tren de Aragua—who has been designated a terror group. The judge even ordered deportation flights to return to the United States; they didn’t, as the planes were over international waters.
The media is framing this as a constitutional crisis since Trump ignored the ruling. His communications team isn’t framing it that way, but I couldn’t care less if they did. It should be ignored. Boasberg lacks the authority to dictate what is already explicitly outlined under Article II. The only crisis is the one Boasberg creates by acting like some Americanized version of Oliver Cromwell on speed.
Trump called for his impeachment:
And Chief Justice John Roberts, who should’ve kept his mouth shut, felt the need to respond, adding that the threat of impeachment shouldn’t be used when disagreeing with a judicial opinion. That’s what the appeals process is for.
John, we know you’re the leader of the liberal wing of the Court now that Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed away. Still, you should know better. If it doesn’t involve the Supremes, keep your head in the sand per the institution’s protocols, which is never to weigh in or know what society wants; that’s the job of legislatures. Sean Davis of The Federalist brought more fire:
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RELATED: The Politics of John Roberts
REDSTATE | Published March 19, 2025
A brewing constitutional crisis came to a head Tuesday. Federal trial judges nominated by Democrats continue to issue order after order frustrating President Trump’s agenda. Now, President Trump is echoing a call of some on the legal right to start impeaching judges. President Trump tweeted (truthed) about a possible judicial impeachment this morning:
Amazingly, the Chief Justice of the ever-solemn, nearly sanctimonious Supreme Court of the United States issued a press release – not an opinion – addressing Trump’s call for judicial impeachments through its Public Information Office:
“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”
Next, Trump doubled down Tuesday afternoon with reposting a shot he took at John Roberts in 2012:
As much as conservatives may not like to hear it, some of those judges may have a point, or at a minimum, they have an arguable point. These judges are not issuing opinions that say, “Do what we say because we don’t like what you’re doing.” They cite real cases, make real arguments, and ask real questions of Trump’s attorneys defending these issues in federal court.
That is what liberals are going to tell themselves.
What that so ideologically ignores is that this is not a legal question. This is a battle of political legitimacy. And Trump has the upper hand.
It would be one thing if the federal courts let the litigation play out in its normal course. File briefs, motions, and make arguments galore until two years later, the parties get some kind of decision — when the point is near moot. (Much like how the courts handled the 2020 election challenges from Trump.)
Instead, because liberal judges cannot help themselves or see the forest for the trees, Trump is having his relatively popular actions frozen at the earliest stage possible – one after the other – despite these disputes being uncharted territory. (Does Trump give us anything but?)
These judges may not realize this has already gotten to the point where it is playing into Trump’s hands. But John Roberts does.
Roberts is not interested in saving Trump. But he is interested in saving his power – the power of the Supreme Court. And these lower court liberal judges are putting that at risk. As soon as Trump is given an order that the population backs him in defying, let alone pursuing impeachment over, what’s to stop him from taking the same tack against the Supreme Court?
Would Trump seek Roberts’ impeachment? He’d have many legitimate grounds. Roberts was inarguably derelict in his supervision of the FISA court that illegally, corruptly, even traitorously spied on him during his campaign and first term. (One of these liberal judges was appointed by Roberts to head that very FISA court.) Roberts also handled Trump’s impeachment proceedings, the Dobbs decision leak, threats on justices, and various prominent cases in very suspect fashion.
That’s why Roberts’ brief statement references the “appellate process.” “Calm down, Mr. President,” he’s saying, “I’ll rule for you if you’re patient.”
Roberts is trying to project strength. But this statement shows weakness. He felt forced to put this out because he realizes not just Trump but the American people are getting impatient.
The American people don’t read 60-page opinions from federal trial court judges in far-off jurisdictions who went to far-off schools to learn how to write such opinions.
These decisions coming down one after the other create information overload. And makes it easy for Trump to build his narrative. They’re after him no matter what. He is trying to make America great; they are the Deep State.
Roberts knows he and his liberal judge colleagues could lose the narrative. Fast.
Expect the legal war to only escalate.
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SOURCE: www.redstate.com
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