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.
11 comments:
Oh, fun post. Gird your loins for the MAGA masses to whine about how much of a "traitor" CJ Roberts is. In three, two...
The entire bar should be calling out these attacks on judges.
And what about the executive orders targeting law firms and lawyers. I'm surprised many Bars and this blog have not covered or spoken out about what a federal judge said sent "chills down [her] spine."
I wonder how Judge Edith Jones would respond to Donald Trump's attacks on the credibility of the judiciary? Or how Judge Ho would respond? Or how anyone at this Federalist Society event (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DBl0vUV0ak) would respond?
The options seem clear: 1) either condemn Donald Trump as forcefully as they condemned Steve Vladeck; or 2) they come clean as partisan hacks.
What say you, members of the Federalist Society? Does anyone from the Federalist Society have the courage and integrity to address this, and to sign their name?
CJ Roberts and his colleagues gifted the presidency with immunity, which they found (dreamed up?) in the shadows of constitutional thought. Now they get to see the consequences affect the judiciary. FAFO.
No, they don't. As you suggest, they're all partisan hacks.
LOL the keynote speaker at that event was Justice Stephen Breyer. And no, Edith Jones’ outburst was not held in high regard. So you all are not following along.
The Trump power and influence now is not with FedSoc. It’s with the Projects—Project 2025 and the Article III Project. Too bad for Dems that Sheldon Whitehouse and Cory Booker spent all their juice on FedSoc and have nothing left so the judicial nominations will soon start rolling in.
"LOL" Say whatever you like but we all watched the video. We heard the crowd's reaction.
We also all saw Ho's utter lack of "moderation" during the sad attempt at an attack on the professor.
Noone from FEDSUCK will speak up...they are too busy applying for jobs for which they are highly UNqualified and pale. A pack of sycophants and their suck up friends.
Spot on. Supposedly Roberts was majorly irked by the DCJ and the Appeals Court ruling that upheld a president could be charged with crimes. He did exactly what you said and I wonder how bad it will get for the judiciary.
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