Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts defended the rogue judiciary and slammed Trump’s call for impeaching judges in a rare rebuke on Tuesday.
On Tuesday morning, President Trump called for Judge James Boasberg to be impeached after he ordered planes deporting criminal Venezuelan aliens to turn around.
Judge Boasberg demanded the DOJ disclose sensitive national security information during a contentious hearing on Monday.
The Justice Department hit back and said the activist judge was trying to force the government to disclose sensitive national security and operation security concerns.
“That development escalates the stakes of the district court’s inappropriate exercise of jurisdiction and the risks that the district court may force the government to disclose sensitive national security and operational security concerns or face significant penalties from the court. The Government cannot—and will not—be forced to answer sensitive questions of national security and foreign relations in a rushed posture without orderly briefing and a showing that these questions are somehow material to a live issue.
On Monday afternoon, the DOJ asked the appeals court to remove Judge Boasberg and reassign the case to another judge.
“This Court should also immediately reassign this case to another district court judge given the highly