Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that a federal judge who had tried to arrest his expulsion plans should be charged, degenerating his conflict with a judicial power which was one of the rare constraints of the aggressive plans of his administration.
Trump regularly criticized the judges, especially since they limit his efforts to extend the presidential power and impose his program of radiation to the federal government. But his call for dismissal – a rare step which is generally not taken only in the event of serious ethical or criminal misconduct – represents an intensifying confrontation between the judicial and executive branches.
The Republican President described the American district judge James E. Boasberg in Washington, as a “disorders and agitator” not elected in an article on social social, his social media platform. Boasberg recently published an order blocking the expulsion flights under the war authorities from a 18th century law that Trump invoked to carry out his plans.
“He won nothing! I have won for many reasons, in an overwhelming mandate, but the fight against illegal immigration was perhaps the first reason for this historic victory,” Trump wrote on Tuesday. “I just do what the voters wanted me to do. This judge, like many twisted judges “I have to appear before, should be dismissed !!! »»
THE Alien Enemies Act of 1798 has only been used three times before in the history of the United States, all during the wars declared at Congress. Trump published a proclamation that the law was newly in force because of what he claimed to be an invasion of the Venezuelan gang Tren of Aragua. His administration pays El Salvador to the alleged imprisonment of gang members.
Boasberg, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, summoned an audience on Monday to discuss what he called the “possible distrust” of his order after two expulsion flights continued in El Salvador despite his verbal order that they were turned to the United States
Lawyers of the Trump administration defended their actions, claiming that the written order of Boasberg was not explicit, while a lawyer for the Union of American Civil Liberties Said “I think we get closer very close” to a constitutional crisis.
The Constitution gives to the House of Representatives, where the Republicans have a thin majority, the power to dismiss a judge with a simple majority vote. But, as a presidential dismissal, any dismissal requires a vote of a two -thirds majority of the Senate.
The latest publication of the president’s social media corresponds more to allies like Elon Musk, who made similar requests.
“What we see is an attempt at a branch of the government to intimidate another branch of the execution of its constitutional duty. It is a direct threat to legal independence,” said Marin Levy, professor of law at Duke University who specializes in the federal courts, in an email.
Only earlier, the White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “I did not hear the president talking about accusation.”
According to the leader of the American courts, only 15 judges were charged in the history of the country, according to American courts, and only eight have been suppressed.
The last judicial dismissal took place in 2010. G. Thomas Porteous Jr. de la Nova Orleans was charged with the bribes, then he lied about it. He was sentenced by the Senate and removed from his duties in December 2010.
The calls for dismissal judges increased while Trump’s scanning program faced a discharge before the courts, and that at least two members of the Congress said online that they were planning to introduce charges against Boasberg. The House Republicans have already filed indictment against two other judges, Amir Ali and Paul Engelmayer, on decisions they have taken in proceedings related to Trump.
The editors of the Associated Press Lindsay Whitehurst and Mark Sherman contributed to this report.