Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. publicly rebuked President Trump's call to impeach Judge James E. Boasberg over a ruling involving migrant removals. Roberts asserted that impeachment should not be a reaction to disagreements with judicial decisions, reinforcing the judiciary's independence. This situation echoed a previous instance in 2018 when Roberts defended the integrity of the courts against similar attacks from Trump, emphasizing the notion of impartiality within the judiciary, stating there are no Obama judges or Trump judges, only dedicated judges striving for justice.
For more than two centuries, the chief justice said, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision.
Mr. Trump had called the judge, James E. Boasberg, a Radical Left Lunatic in a social media post and said he should be impeached.
Chief Justice Roberts defended the independence and integrity of the federal judiciary after Mr. Trump called a judge who had ruled against his administration's asylum policy an Obama judge.
The chief justice said that was a profound misunderstanding of the judicial role. We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges.
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