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'Crime and Chaos': Trump goes on Truth Social rant after judge's 'angry order'

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social Friday to rant at the judicial system during an ongoing clash with U.S. District Court James E. Boasberg.

It's Trump's latest attack since his administration allegedly ignored Judge Boasberg's order to turn around a plane full of Venezuelan immigrants being flown to prison in El Salvador.

On Thursday, Judge Boasberg issued an "angry order," according to The New York Times, telling the administration "to explain why he should not find that officials had violated his instructions for the flights to return to the United States."

Trump posted Friday, "No District Court Judge, or any Judge, can assume the duties of the President of the United States. Only Crime and Chaos would result. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

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The Times claimed Boasberg was edging closer "to holding the Trump administration in contempt for possibly having violated his ruling."

"Judge Boasberg’s three-page order was a remarkable display of frustration with an administration that has sought not only to use the extraordinary powers of the wartime law, the Alien Enemies Act, to pursue its immigration agenda, but has also stubbornly refused to provide even the most basic information about the deportation flights," wrote reporter Alan Feuer.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. issued a statement this week, saying, "The Government maintains that there is no justification to order the provision of additional information, and that doing so would be inappropriate, because even accepting Plaintiffs' account of the facts, there was no violation of the Court's written order (since the relevant flights left U.S. airspace, and so their occupants were 'removed,' before the order issued), and the Court's earlier oral statements were not independently enforceable as injunctions."

John Roberts, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, issued a rare public rebuke after Trump and others demanded that Judge Boasberg be impeached.

“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 wrote.

Trump ruled to have flouted the law more than a dozen times since taking office: report

Federal judges have ruled that the current administration has defied the law in more than a dozen cases, including three major rulings this week, in the short time since Trump has taken office, according to reporting in The Washington Post.

Senior political reporter Aaron Blake wrote, "The total works out to one such finding about every four days," that the administration was found to have "either has violated the law or has probably done so."

The findings are for a variety of cases, including "Trump’s efforts to freeze federal funding, fire federal workers, restrict diversity efforts, overturn birthright citizenship and, most recently, limit transgender rights and deport certain immigrants without legal review."

Blake clarified that most of the judges found that the administration "likely violated the law — a temporary but necessary finding needed to halt the administration’s actions while the fuller cases proceed."

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He continued, "But even in many of those cases, the judges didn’t seem to regard that question as a difficult one. Some have cast the actions as blatantly illegal and suggested that the administration made no real effort to justify them."

Many of the judges have resorted to castigating the Department of Justice attorneys for their arguments, as well.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup "delivered a furious rebuke" to attorneys in March, condemning "the terminations of thousands of probationary workers as a 'sham' designed to circumvent the law, accused the Justice Department of filing a bogus declaration, and declared in open court that he felt 'misled' by dishonest government lawyers," according to Slate.

And, just this week, Judge James Boasberg said he was "incredulous" that DOJ lawyers wouldn't answer his questions about the administration allegedly ignoring his ruling to return a plane full of Venezuelan deportees to the United States.

"So when I said directly turn the plane around, you read it because my written order was pithier, this could be disregarded? That's a heck of a stretch," Boasberg chided.

Trump has slammed the "rogue judges" he claimed are trying to strip him of his executive powers.

Read The Washington Post article here.



'Oh come on!' GOP lawmaker snaps as CNN delivers civics lesson on Constitution

Republican Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) aimed his anger toward the news media when CNN's John Berman asked about the constitutional powers of federal judges on Tuesday.

Berman's question had to do with the attacks the Trump administration has aimed at U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who ordered planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to return to the United States instead of onward toward a prison in El Salvador. At issue was the Constitutional right to due process, which the detainees did not receive before being loaded onto the planes.

The administration ignored the judge's order, then publicly mocked him and refused to answer his questions at a Monday evening hearing.

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Burchett claimed he had "evidence" that the deportees "are criminals, and I'll never understand why CNN takes the side of a bunch of murderers that have come into our country illegally. And, I realize you all have...to make your stand, but that is complete nonsense. And the American public's not buying it. Listen, this is an act of war by these countries."

Berman interjected, "Congressman, the media didn't write the Constitution, the founding fathers did... All I'm asking you — and you are an elected member of Congress, and we certainly respect that role — what your advice is to the White House? Do you think that the White House has the responsibility to follow rulings from the federal judiciary?"

Burchett answered that Trump has the authority to protect the country from criminals, and blamed the judge for "taking the side of a bunch of criminals."

"He hasn't taken any side yet, congressman. All he's done is put a stay on the White House action here so that he can review their use of, their novel use, of the alien enemies —"

"Oh, come on! These guys, listen, these guys — the difference between God and these judges is God knows he's not one of these judges. They're arrogant. They practice this type of thing all the time. And when if you had a conservative one doing it, you all would be raising total hell."

"Again, congressman...no one's taking a side here. I'm asking you about the Constitution. Is asking about the Constitution taking a side?"

Watch the clip below via CNN.

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