President Trump and a number of his surrogates have called for impeachment of Judge James Boasberg, one of our great judges. Boasberg is smart and respected by both sides of the aisle.
Chief Justice Roberts told Trump to stop.
"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."
From SCOTUSblog:
Chief Justice John Roberts criticized a call by President Donald
Trump for the impeachment of a federal trial judge who temporarily
barred the federal government from deporting noncitizens pursuant to an
executive order published on Saturday.
The rare public statement was the latest development in a fast-moving
battle over Trump’s efforts to deport noncitizens alleged to be members
of a Venezuelan gang pursuant to an eighteenth-century law that had
been invoked only three previous times in the country’s history.
Trump’s executive order relied on the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 law
that allows the president to detain or deport citizens of an enemy
nation without a hearing or other judicial review when Congress has
declared war or when an “invasion” or “predatory incursion” occurs.
Trump found that Tren de Aragua “is perpetrating, attempting, and
threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of
the United States.” Based on that conclusion, he indicated that “all
Venezuelan citizens 14 years of age or older who are members of TdA are
liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as Alien
Enemies.”
On Saturday, James Boasberg – the chief judge of the U.S. District
Court for the District of Columbia – prohibited the federal government
from deporting any noncitizens for 14 days pursuant to the executive
order published earlier in the day.
Boasberg also ordered the Trump administration to turn around any flights that had already taken off.
Despite Boasberg’s order, news outlets – including The New York Times
– reported that the Trump administration had deported more than 200
noncitizens to El Salvador on Saturday night and Sunday morning. None of
the planes carrying those noncitizens landed in El Salvador before
Boasberg issued his written order.