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In reply to the discussion: Roberts rejects Trump's call for impeaching judge who ruled against his deportation plans [View all]LetMyPeopleVote
(166,353 posts)63. MaddowBlog-Chief Justice John Roberts rebukes Trump over call for federal judge's impeachment
The White House has been engaged in an intense fight with the judiciary. By calling for a judge’s impeachment, Trump just took the fight to a new level.
Trump, last week: It's "totally illegal" to criticize a judge I like.
Trump, this week: A judge I don't like is a "Radical Left Lunatic" who "should be IMPEACHED!!!"
Trump, this week: A judge I don't like is a "Radical Left Lunatic" who "should be IMPEACHED!!!"
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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-crosses-new-line-calls-judges-impeachment-escalating-fight-judic-rcna196882
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issued a highly unusual statement on Tuesday morning, for example, that read, "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.".....
Four days later, Politico reported on the president calling for a different federal district court judge’s impeachment.
Apparently furious about Boasberg’s handling of the Alien Enemies Act litigation, the president published an especially enraged item to his social media platform, referring to the federal district court judge as a “Radical Left Lunatic,” a “troublemaker” and an “agitator.” After a series of all-caps claims about the fact that the jurist isn’t an elected official — in this country, federal judges aren’t chosen by voters — Trump concluded, “This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!”.....
This campaign, however, has been largely relegated to the fringe. There are over 250 GOP lawmakers across the House and the Senate, and the total number of Republicans talking about impeaching federal judges is, as a quantitative matter, fairly small. Few, if any, credible observers have predicted that the impeachment push would ever be taken seriously on Capitol Hill.
But it’s against this backdrop that the sitting Republican president has decided to throw his weight behind an impeachment effort — not because Boasberg committed high crimes or abused his office, but because the judge is handling an important case in a way Trump doesn’t like.
The White House has been engaged in an intensifying fight with the judicial branch, and there’s been growing speculation about whether the administration might consider defying court rulings that the president doesn’t like. With his impeachment call, Trump just took that fight to a new level.
Four days later, Politico reported on the president calling for a different federal district court judge’s impeachment.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday called for the impeachment of the federal judge who ordered a two-week halt to his efforts to remove Venezuelan migrants using extraordinary war powers that haven’t been invoked for decades. Trump’s call to remove U.S. District Judge James Boasberg — the chief judge of the federal district court in Washington, D.C. — is the first time since taking office for his second term that he’s asked Congress to seek a judge’s removal, joining increasingly pointed calls by his top donor and adviser Elon Musk and a segment of his MAGA base.
Apparently furious about Boasberg’s handling of the Alien Enemies Act litigation, the president published an especially enraged item to his social media platform, referring to the federal district court judge as a “Radical Left Lunatic,” a “troublemaker” and an “agitator.” After a series of all-caps claims about the fact that the jurist isn’t an elected official — in this country, federal judges aren’t chosen by voters — Trump concluded, “This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!”.....
This campaign, however, has been largely relegated to the fringe. There are over 250 GOP lawmakers across the House and the Senate, and the total number of Republicans talking about impeaching federal judges is, as a quantitative matter, fairly small. Few, if any, credible observers have predicted that the impeachment push would ever be taken seriously on Capitol Hill.
But it’s against this backdrop that the sitting Republican president has decided to throw his weight behind an impeachment effort — not because Boasberg committed high crimes or abused his office, but because the judge is handling an important case in a way Trump doesn’t like.
The White House has been engaged in an intensifying fight with the judicial branch, and there’s been growing speculation about whether the administration might consider defying court rulings that the president doesn’t like. With his impeachment call, Trump just took that fight to a new level.
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Roberts rejects Trump's call for impeaching judge who ruled against his deportation plans [View all]
BumRushDaShow
Mar 2025
OP
Now thrump's nazi base will send death threats to Roberts, and no doubt the head nazi, trump will double down and
JohnSJ
Mar 2025
#1
"Someone" (maybe the 3 liberal Justices) must have WOKEN his ass up in a meeting
BumRushDaShow
Mar 2025
#6
Hey Johnny do you want to revisit the immunity issue.............asking for a friend.........
turbinetree
Mar 2025
#5
From the same seemingly bottomless, foul pit from which the rest of his lies and hyperbole are foisted upon us.
Harker
Mar 2025
#25
From his damn "reality show host" stupid propaganda for the stupids. nt
Justice matters.
Mar 2025
#48
In Roberts' defense (I can't believe I'm saying this.), when he supported the immunity decision, maybe he couldn't
generalbetrayus
Mar 2025
#29
I'd love it if Roberts (and one or two other Justices) got fed up with the Trump bullshit and tired of the wasted time
Martin68
Mar 2025
#21
I can't understand why the SC justices, even the ones Orange Julius Caesar appointed, aren't standing up against him.
generalbetrayus
Mar 2025
#27
Wait..wasn't there an intimate exchange between Roberts and Trump at the state of the Union speech?
BattleRow
Mar 2025
#36
Amazing. Not a peep about destroying the country, but if you fuck with the judiciary
Scalded Nun
Mar 2025
#39
Well, Roberts, you gave Trump immunity, so how are we going to force Trump to abide by the courts?
SunSeeker
Mar 2025
#40
Do you somehow think that Roberts would have acted or ruled any differently?
BumRushDaShow
Mar 2025
#60
Garland did not push hard enough to really investigate Trump from April 2021 on.
Justice matters.
Mar 2025
#70
And the end result of that bloathed separation of powers' justice system is...
Justice matters.
Mar 2025
#72
That is why there has been a continual push for "criminal justice reform"
BumRushDaShow
Mar 2025
#73
MaddowBlog-Chief Justice John Roberts rebukes Trump over call for federal judge's impeachment
LetMyPeopleVote
Mar 2025
#63