Leavitt particularly targeted Federal judge James Boasberg from the capital Washington. The latter had ordered the deportation to suspend alleged members of a Venezuelan drug gang based on a law adopted in 1798 against “foreign enemies”.
It is “very, very clear” that the lawyer is an “activist judge”, the attempts to tear the government power itself, said Leavitt. Boasberg is a “democratic activist”.
Despite the judicial order, more than 200 suspected Venezuelan gang members were flown to El Salvador and were detained there in a notorious prison. The White House subsequently argued that the aircraft had already been in the air at the time of the judicial order. After Boasberg’s decision, Trump had asked for a dismissal of the judge and, among other things, insulted him as a “right -wing radical madman”.
In an unusual step, John Roberts, John Roberts, intervened on Tuesday and called Trump to order. It has been “common practice for more than two centuries that an office procedure is not a reasonable response to disagreements regarding a judicial decision,” said the conservative judge.
Trump announced again in his online service Truth Social against Boasberg on Wednesday. “If a president does not have the right to throw murderers and other criminals from our country because a radical left -wing crazy judge wants to take on the role of the president, then our country has a lot of trouble and is doomed to fail!” Wrote Trump.
The case once again raised the question to what extent the Trump government is willing to get over judicial orders when implementing its policy. Trump claims comprehensive power powers and does not want to accept that federal judges block parts of its highly controversial political agenda.
This has occurred several times in the past few days alone. On Tuesday, a federal judge declared the processing of the US Development Authority USAID to be unconstitutional. On the same day, a federal judge stopped the exclusion of trans people in the army, which was driven by Trump’s government.
