US judges usurping Trump’s authority — White House

The White House on Wednesday said US judges are usurping executive power amid a series of rulings against the administration of President Donald Trump, including one that blocked the deportation of Venezuelan migrants and drew the president’s ire.

According to the White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, there had been a concerted effort by the far left to pick judges who were clearly acting as partisan activists to deal with cases involving the Republican administration.

“Not only are they usurping the will of the president and the chief executive of our country, but they are undermining the will of the American public,” Leavitt said.

She particularly slammed the District Judge James Boasberg, who over the weekend ordered the suspension of the deportation flights, carried out under an obscure wartime law.

Trump’s administration had said that it invoked the more than 200-year-old legislation to deport Venezuelan gang members as part of its mass deportation program of undocumented migrants.

“It’s very, very clear that this is an activist judge who is trying to usurp the president’s authority,” Leavitt added.

Trump personally called for the judge’s impeachment on Tuesday, stating that Boasberg was a Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator who was sadly appointed by Barack Obama.

Trump’s comments were greeted with a rare public rebuke from Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.

However, Trump renewed his attacks on Boasberg on his Truth Social network on Wednesday, though not repeating his call for impeachment.

Judges have reportedly dealt Trump a number of setbacks in recent days as his administration pursues its wholesale overhaul of the federal government.

A judge on Tuesday ordered an immediate halt to the shutdown of the main US aid agency by tech tycoon Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE.

On the same day another judge suspended the Trump administration’s ban on transgender people serving in the military, citing the principle of equality.