The article discusses a constitutional crisis initiated by U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg's order to prevent the deportation of Venezuelan gang members by the Trump Administration. Despite the judge's clear directive, deportations continued, leading to public mockery from international leaders. Trump's response included calls for the judge’s impeachment, escalating tensions between the judicial branch and the executive. This incident exemplifies the alarming dynamics that threaten the established checks and balances within the U.S. government as the current administration tests judicial authority.
Federal judges are accustomed to being obeyed, but there is a new Administration in town, and it is dangerously and deliberately testing the limits of judicial power.
Boasberg instructed the Justice Department lawyer Drew Ensign over Zoom, a hearing called so hurriedly that the judge, away for the weekend without having packed his robes, apologized at the start for his informal dress.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday demanded the judge's impeachment, calling him 'a Radical Left Lunatic.' At which point the Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts, weighed in.
You shall inform your clients of this immediately, and that any plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States.
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