Trump demands judge’s impeachment, Supreme Court chief justice rebukes him

Supreme Court docket Chief Justice John Roberts rebuked President Donald Trump after the president known as for the impeachment of a federal choose who issued orders blocking Trump’s plan to deport any extra alleged members of a Venezuelan gang from america.

“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Roberts stated in an announcement on Trump’s demand.

“The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose,” Roberts stated, a number of hours after Trump in a Truth Social put up wrote that Chief Judge James Boasberg, “like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!”

The White Home didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon Roberts’ assertion.

Boasberg is presiding over a lawsuit difficult the deportations in Washington, D.C., federal court docket. The Trump administration argues the removals of alleged members of the Tren de Aragua gang are licensed beneath the wartime Alien Enemies Act.

Boasberg on Saturday issued two orders enjoining Trump from deporting aliens detained in immigration proceedings who’re allegedly related to the TdA, which the U.S. has designated as a overseas terrorist group.

At a listening to Monday, Boasberg pressed a prime Department of Justice lawyer on whether or not the administration had violated Boasberg’s orders.

The DOJ lawyer refused to reply lots of these questions, citing nationwide safety issues. Boasberg later instructed the DOJ to file a response to his questions, or its arguments for why they shouldn’t be answered, by Tuesday.

The DOJ has requested the D.C. federal appeals court docket to take away Boasberg from the case, and in addition Boasberg on to vacate his orders.

The DOJ in a court docket submitting Monday stated, Boasberg “lacks jurisdiction because the presidential actions they challenge are not subject to judicial review.” The identical submitting challenged Boasberg’s energy to order DOJ legal professionals to supply details about the deportations of a whole bunch of alleged TdA members over the weekend to Central America.

Trump in his Fact Social put up had raged, “This Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator who was sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, was not elected President.”

“He didn’t WIN the popular VOTE (by a lot!), he didn’t WIN ALL SEVEN SWING STATES, he didn’t WIN 2,750 to 525 Counties,” Trump wrote, referring to his personal accomplishments of these benchmarks within the 2024 election. “HE DIDN’T WIN ANYTHING!”

Boasberg was appointed by former President Obama, who’s a Democrat, to his federal court docket seat in 2011. However he was beforehand appointed to District of Columbia Superior Court docket in 2002 by former President George W. Bush, who’s a Republican, as is Trump.

On Tuesday, a prime U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official in a declaration filed in Boasberg’s court docket revealed that one in all three planes carrying alleged gang members departed america for El Salvador on Saturday evening, after Boasberg had issued an order barring their deportation.

“But all individuals on that third plane had Title 8 final removal orders and thus were not removed solely on the basis of the Proclamation at issue” within the lawsuit, the declaration stated.

“To avoid any doubt, no one on any flight departing the United States after 7:25 PM EDT on March 15, 2025, was removed solely on the basis of the Proclamation at issue.”

The submitting additionally stated that about 54 alleged members of the Venezuelan gang are at the moment in detention, about 172 alleged members are on the nondetained docket and about 32 are in prison custody with energetic detainers in opposition to them.

“Should they be transferred to ICE custody, they will likely be placed in removal proceeding,” the submitting stated.

Critics of Trump’s deportation effort have questioned how his administration decided who’s a member of the gang.

In a declaration filed in court docket Monday, the appearing subject workplace director of enforcement and elimination operations of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement wrote, “Agency personnel carefully vetted each individual alien to ensure they were in fact members of TdA.”

The appearing director, Robert Cerna, wrote that “It was critical to remove TdA members subject to the [deportation] Proclamation quickly.”

“Keeping them in ICE custody where they could potentially continue to recruit new TdA members posed a grave risk to ICE personnel; other, nonviolent detainees; and the United States as a whole,” Cerna stated.

“Holding hundreds of members of a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, where there is an immediate mechanism to remove them, would be irresponsible.”

“While it is true that many of the TdA members removed under the AEA do not have criminal records in the United States, that is because they have only been in the United States for a short period of time,” Cerna wrote.

“The lack of a criminal record does not indicate they pose a limited threat. In fact, based upon their association with TdA, the lack of specific information about each individual actually highlights the risk they pose. It demonstrates that they are terrorists with regard to whom we lack a complete profile.”