President Donald Trump’s call for an impeachment of the judge who moved to block the deportations of illegal aliens suspected of being in the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) is drawing criticism from U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
In a Truth Social post on Tuesday morning, Trump ripped into James Boasberg, the chief judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, over his order on Saturday night:
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, HE DIDN’T WIN ANYTHING! I WON FOR MANY REASONS, IN AN OVERWHELMING MANDATE, BUT FIGHTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION MAY HAVE BEEN THE NUMBER ONE REASON FOR THIS HISTORIC VICTORY. I’m just doing what the VOTERS wanted me to do.
Trump then called for Boasberg’s impeachment.
Within hours, Roberts issued a statement saying that calling for a judge’s impeachment because one disagrees with a ruling is not “appropriate.”
“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,” he said, according to the Hill.
