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Date: March 19, 2025 at 12:27:34
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: this is how they roll...attack attack attack.... |
URL: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5203530-white-house-trump-deportation-judge-attack/ |
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White House escalates attacks on judge in deportation case: ‘Egregious abuse of the bench’
by Brett Samuels - 03/19/25 1:58 PM ET
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday stepped up attacks on a federal judge that ordered flights carrying alleged Venezuelan gang members to be turned around, decrying him as a “Democrat activist” despite originally being nominated by a Republican president.
Leavitt told reporters at a press briefing that the administration does not have any additional flights to El Salvador carrying alleged gang members planned after U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg tried to intervene with a verbal order as flights were in the air on Saturday. The press secretary then teed off on Boasberg, who has drawn the ire of Republicans and President Trump in recent days.
“I would just like to point out that the judge in this case is essentially trying to say that the president doesn’t have the executive authority to deport foreign terrorists from our American soil,” Leavitt said. “That is an egregious abuse of the bench. The judge does not have that authority. It is the opinion of this White House and this administration, and that’s why we’re fighting this in court.
“And it’s very, very clear that this [is] an activist judge who is trying to usurp the president’s authority,” Leavitt continued. “Under the Alien Enemies Act, the president has this power, and that’s why this deportation campaign has continued. And this judge, Judge Boasberg, is a Democrat activist.”
Leavitt cited political donations from Boasberg’s wife, his nomination to the District Court by former President Obama, and his “disdain” for Trump’s policies.
But Boasberg was first appointed by former President George W. Bush, a Republican, to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Obama nominated him to the District Court in 2010.
Boasberg drew Trump’s ire when he issued a ruling Saturday blocking the president from invoking the Alien Enemies Act to swiftly deport Venezuelan migrants the administration says are suspected gang members.
The judge is demanding information about several deportation flights that left U.S. soil Saturday and whether they violated his order. The Justice Department insists it complied because the flights had left U.S. territory by the time the judge’s written order was issued. It has since cited national security concerns as a reason to not be more forthcoming with details of what happened over the weekend.
Trump has called for Boasberg to be impeached over the ruling. While that is unlikely —impeaching a judge would require a majority in the House and 67 votes in the Senate — Trump’s attack still drew a rare rebuke from Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
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Date: March 19, 2025 at 14:35:48
From: Sue/Seattle, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: this is how they roll...attack attack attack.... |
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Just a feeling but I think POTUS is messing with the
wrong folks when he attacks judiciary making it personal.
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Date: March 19, 2025 at 18:19:35
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: this is how they roll...attack attack attack.... |
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that seems to be what roberts is signaling...
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Date: March 19, 2025 at 12:32:20
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: this is how they roll...attack attack attack.... |
URL: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5202833-greg-gutfeld-donald-trump-john-roberts-venezuelan-migrant-flights/ |
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and fox, as usual, plays right along...there outta be a law...
Gutfeld rips Roberts: ‘Shut the F up’
by Dominick Mastrangelo - 03/19/25 10:11 AM ET
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld blasted U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts after he issued a rare criticism of President Trump, who has called to impeach a federal judge that ruled against his administration in a recent immigration case.
Roberts’s statement, issued Tuesday, noted 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,” the chief justice wrote.
Gutfeld, a vocal supporter of Trump and one Fox News’s top-rated hosts, pushed back on Roberts wading into the president’s fight with U.S. District Judge James Boasberg.
“When there are rapists and murderers invading our country, maybe a guy in a robe in D.C. can follow all the protocols, but Trump is the effing president of the United States who protects 300 million plus people,” Gutfeld said on Tuesday’s episode of “The Five.”
“He is a leader who does not have the luxury of opening up his little books to read.”
The comedian and cable news host told Roberts to “shut the F up.”
“This is something that a president has to do,” Gutfeld continued in the comments, first highlighted by Mediaite. “He has to do this. It blows my mind how wrong I was in 2016, or 2015, when Trump came down the escalator and we were … I was, ‘I can’t believe he said these things.’ Everything he said was right.”
He added, “They’re sending bad people. What did he say? They’re sending killers and rapists. Do you remember this? Some of them were good people. And now he’s sending them back.”
The Trump administration is arguing it has the legal authority to deport suspected members of the Tren de Aragua gang to El Salvador after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to remove Venezuelan migrants. Boasberg pushed back on the move, ordering the flights to be turned around.
However, administration officials said the flights were already out of U.S. territory and the judge no longer had authority to intervene.
The president was also pressed on his back-and-forth with the judge by Fox News’s Laura Ingraham. Trump suggested in the interview that aired Tuesday that he had not defied court orders and would not in the future.
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