Chief Justice John Roberts rebukes Trump after president calls for US judge's impeachment
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Via: hallux • 2 weeks ago • 32 commentsBy: Joey Garrison and Maureen Groppe - USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON − The growing clash between President Donald Trump and the judiciary took a major turn Tuesday as Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts delivered a rare rebuke after Trump called for the impeachment of a federal judge.
“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Roberts said in a statement. “The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”
Roberts' comment came after Trump on Tuesday called for the impeachment of a federal judge who tried to stop the Republican administration from deporting hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members via the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 law last used during World War II.
Trump, in a social media post, referred to Chief U.S. Judge James Boasberg in Washington D.C ., who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, as a "a troublemaker and agitator."
Trump said unlike himself, the judge did not win all seven battleground states in the 2024 presidential election en route to an "OVERWHELMING MANDATE" that Trump said was centered on his promise to fight llegal immigration.
"I’m just doing what the VOTERS wanted me to do. This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!" Trump said in his post on Truth Social. "WE DON’T WANT VICIOUS, VIOLENT, AND DEMENTED CRIMINALS, MANY OF THEM DERANGED MURDERERS, IN OUR COUNTRY. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!"
Boasberg tried to temporarily block deportation flights on Saturday through oral and written orders. But lawyers for the Venezuelans said two flights left Texas for Honduras and El Salvador.
Justice Department lawyers have refused the judge’s demand that they provide information about the flights.
Lee Gelernt, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union which is representing the Venezuelans, said the administration appeared to have defied the judge’s order.
“There’s been a lot of talk during the last several weeks about a constitutional crisis, throwing that term around,” Gelernt said. “I think we’re getting very close to it.”
A Justice Department lawyer, Abhishek Kambli, told Boasberg his written order was not valid if it was issued after the flights had crossed into international territory. The Justice Department said the judge’s oral order was also unenforceable.
Trump is relying on the 1798 Alien Enemies Act for authority to remove the Venezuelans. The act allows the deportation of anyone from a designated enemy country who is not a naturalized citizen.
The administration argues the Venezuelans are members of a gang called Tren de Aragua and are a national security threat.
But Boasberg said the Alien Enemies Act does not "provide a basis for the president's proclamation given that the terms invasion, predatory incursion really relate to hostile acts perpetrated by any nation and commensurate to war."
Ladies and Chaoticions, y'all have a new(ish) traitor to denounce and quell your boiling maga-smegma.
Note to Justice Roberts ... give Liz a call for antediluvian tips.
oh dear, the SCOTUS asshole that made it possible to buy elections and gave criminal/traitors immunity seems to be concerned about his historical legacy now ...
The UN supremes own this fckn clown after letting America down by taking his Bull Sheet immunity argument where he can now assasinate opponents who are proponents of our Constitution that Trump has now framed in Gold in his oval official Throne room.
There retarding of a trial balloon the US public needed(unfortunately) to realize all the LIES this menace to mayhem had surely told and acted on so bold, or dash behind the Courts, a few pints short stuck where the sun don't moonshine, as the intoxication is a saturation that the guzzled and whined and dined on the hosts drank like they where busting through a Mexican paid for wall and all, as hands on deck, to catcher the pitcher before further wreck...
Is this somehow different than Obama murdering American citizens without due process? and the murdering their 15 year son by "mistake"?
So all trump has to do is declare them a terrorist and it's open season......right? That whole goose/gander thing.
that makes me giggle at the gaggle you gargle, cause it is a fowl comparison of two different species, cause Trump is more like feces in the face of Obamas reasons for actually attempting to truly protect our country. Trump wants to truly OWN our country, as he already OWNS so many of its' citizens and they are unable to fly the coop, cause chickens have wings, but cannot fly, even when hot. On the sauce is where it seems sum bee, and it stings when a stork mistakes your dork for a small mouth trout filled with pork, cause if you base your argument on a Billy Big Mouth Bass who plays the Bass while running in place of a small mouth to better fit their schtick, they can sometimes be an ass, but better than a small Orange un endowed bass turd gonna be wild cause he's haveing a fit that doesn't in our filled in with #2 oval office, as he shits on his throne, and our Country !
I guess that depends on where you are standing doesn't it? Obama was a piece of shit who murdered Americans without due process, so far Trumps body count is at zero.
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YES!!! The two aren't even on the same planet in terms of relativity! It's objectively insane to compare the two. One was a drone strike on the known radical terrorist, and key organizer of al-Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki that accidently took the life of Awlaki's 16 year old son who did have American citizenship. The other is actively hunting down political opponents and assassinating them like Trumps man crush Putin does.
I seriously doubt that if trmp had been in office when that happened we would ever hear about it from the MAGA
Lets start here, who told you that? Surely you can show me a verdict or some type of judicial review where an American Citizen was found guilty, then killed and his execution ordered? or are you trusting the word of an administration that just declared it so? And al-Awlaki's son was NOT killed in the drone strike that killed his father, that was a separate murder.
Do you have a link to this? The first is based on facts, other than delusion and fantasy until you can you show me documentation where the second has actually occurred?
Who were the 4 U.S. citizens killed in drone strikes? - CBS News
The current score card is Obama murdering 4 Americans trump is at 0.
... not counting the pandemic.
Then Joe Dementia is the king. his body count is higher than trumps. but there is a difference between the 2. Actual ordering the execution and people dying from a Fauci created plague.
Wow. Realizing that there are people who actually believe this mind numbingly moronic bullshit is truly sad. This nation is in for some really tough years if there is any sort of sizable group of persons who have filled their head with those kinds of fascinatingly stupid conspiracy theories. I would imagine it would take ramming one's head against a masonry pillar repeatedly to kill enough brain cells in order to believe such obvious batshit crazy nonsense. It does prove that Donald is the true King of the Demented, Old Joe couldn't hold a candle to the brainlessness displayed by the sycophants of the convicted felon-in-chief.
Trump overwhelmingly leads rivals in support from less educated Americans
"We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated,” - Donald J Trump
And it's clear he's never lost their support.
And articles of impeachment have just been filed against this Judge, while i believe in what Chief Justice Roberts said, we have a process for overturning bad rulings, impeachment is the standard that has been set for people you don't like.
that's not what or how i read it. Impeachment is the final for judges who aren't following the rule of law like Trump every time he moves that jaw, or if they are found corrupt, like Trump and with everything they disrupt, or possibly show and bias, like Trump showing how he buyass for $135,000.00 a pop
Hilarious given that Trump wasn't "impeached" for doing nothing wrong outside of making democrats cry.
He most certainly WAS IMPEACHED ,, TWICE!
Tryb again cowboy
For doing nothing wrong outside of making democrats cry.
It will go nowhere. But thanks for confirming that MAGA is fighting like hell to be the "big Man" (White male dominated. . . and not to be forgotten—Conservative, that intends for every 'orifice' of the government to be stuffed with it's whims. We will not conform.
Chief Justice Roberts is a white male conservative, the only question not clear (yet) is just how far he is willing to go to be "dominating."
This goes right to the heart of his third branch of government. The executive is taking the third branch of the federal system on, now that it is clear that the GOP is whipped and standing at attention for Trump orders, and have stifled the democrats in the midst of the house and senate.
Republicans, y'all are not well represented by your own now. MAGA has eaten the entirety of your will and has become tamed by a 'lion' in the White house.
That said, CJ Roberts gave no indication that he is onboard to defend the courts beneath the SCOTUS, for he is someone, himself, of an opinion that the unitary executive should have 99.99 free reign to govern. . . even it it harms others and apparently the country as a whole.
Gee!!
Roberts "rebuked"...
Wow... That's really something... Gosh. Trump will certainly change his behavior because of a rebuke.
Certainly.
He should have chastised him. /s
I'm wondering if refusing to obey the judge's order is considered Contempt of Court derserving a jail time penalty.
For a criminal contempt charge, I expect there would need to be a hearing. Then the question is who, specifically, is in contempt? The president? He’s probably immune. Some ICE agent? Airplane pilots? Trying to determine that will take years, I would guess.
I have to laugh at your justice system. As long as it was an "official act" your SCotUS would allow your PofUS to get away with murder. What has your country done with "No man is above the law"? It's become a parody. It makes the movie ...and Justice For All a real thing.
How do you think Obama got away with killing American's via "drones"?
Oh, that went out the window with Biden.
I suppose that all Chief Justices know that they will go into America‘s history books. Roger B Taney (Dredd Scott decision) probably holds the worst reputation, but Roberts is well placed to go down in history as the man who allowed a fascist regime to install itself.
IMO the main problem with America's judicial system is that the judges carry their typically American political bias with them into the courtroom. You have conservative judges and liberal judges when all the judges should be NON-POLITICAL in hearing and deciding cases. Seeking out judges who have the right political bias to try a case is something unheard of in Canada. Having a SCotUS that is biased conservative or biased liberal depending on who does the appointing is a joke. But then it's all just a reflection of a politically divided country wherein devisive politics and the devisive opinions they create is the meal of the day. If you feel that serves you well, you're welcome to it.
Well, Mr. Chief Justice, you brought this shit on yourself. You have bestowed virtually unlimited immunity on a known bully and liar, with a history of disparaging judges. You should have expected him to bully the judiciary.
And we still have no reason to expect that "the Court" gets the lambasting in store for courts 'everywhere' when Trump's administration and MAGAs turn on them. The saying has always been clear: "They will come for you. . . if you get in their way. . . they will STEAMROLL anybody and anything in their way until and unless they meet the IMMOVABLE OBJECT.
Perhaps Trump's certainty of prevailing as all the suits against bat shit crazy actions reach the SCOTUS is now not so certain.
We can only hope
poor roberts, he leads SCOTUS to put trumpski above the law, and then acts surprised when trumpski starts ignoring it completely ...
Democrats spend the last 5 decades threatening (even trying to kill) , demeaning, and plotting to impeach "conservative" justices and we've seen their elected officials beg the President to ignore Supreme Court rulings, and then act surprised when "progressive" judges are treated as nothing but partisan activists.
It's almost like spending decades attacking the judicial system will cause others to follow suit. Who could ever have foreseen this? Almost as astounding as spending 20 years claiming every Presidential election Democrats lose was stolen would eventually cause a Republican to do the same and for the public to doubt the integrity of elections.