This may turn out to mean nothing. We’ve had too many experiences with Chief Justice John Roberts in performance as a tower of Jell-O to count any chickens. But there does seem to be a general brawl shaping up between the Executive and Judicial branches. The president went out of his way to pick a fight on Wednesday by calling for the impeachment of federal District Judge James Boasberg, who ordered a two-week pause in the administration’s human trafficking operation. The president took to his social media site to explain his reasoning in the sane and lucid manner to which we’ve become accustomed.
This Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator who was sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, was not elected President – He didn’t WIN the popular VOTE (by a lot!), he didn’t WIN ALL SEVEN SWING STATES, he didn’t WIN 2,750 to 525 Counties, HE DIDN’T WIN ANYTHING! I WON FOR MANY REASONS, IN AN OVERWHELMING MANDATE, BUT FIGHTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION MAY HAVE BEEN THE NUMBER ONE REASON FOR THIS HISTORIC VICTORY. I’m just doing what the VOTERS wanted me to do. This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!! WE DON’T WANT VICIOUS, VIOLENT, AND DEMENTED CRIMINALS, MANY OF THEM DERANGED MURDERERS, IN OUR COUNTRY. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!
Lincolnesque, I tells ya.
For some reason, this spasm set off the bat-signal in Roberts’ brain, so he did something he almost never has done. He politely told the president to pound sand. From Politico:
“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,” Roberts said Tuesday in a rare and brief statement issued just hours after Trump publicly joined demands by his supporters to remove judges he called “crooked.”
Boy, the Chief really threw the handbill at him there.
I’m not sure this even qualifies as “pushback.” That will come, if it ever does, when these multiple abuses of office come before Roberts and his colleagues and when, after that, the president ignores a Supreme Court ruling that goes against him. Until then, I guess, we take what we can get. You will notice that nowhere in this post do I use the word, “institutionalist.” Fool me once, Chief…
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