Donald Trump called on Tuesday, March 18 to “eliminate” a judge who ordered the suspension of spectacular expulsion operations of migrants, in one of his most direct attacks to date against the judicial institution.
“This judge, like many of the corrupt judges before which I am forced to appear, must be dismissed,” asked the US president on his Truth social platform.
“The fight against illegal immigration (a) Perhaps it was the number one reason” of his victory in the November presidential elections, he also writes, before adding: “I only do what the voters asked.”
The 78 -year -old Republican attack aims to more precisely a federal judge of Washington James Boasberg.
200 people expelled to Salvador
Conturbed in an emergency, the magistrate had ordered the suspension on Saturday for 14 days of any expulsion of migrants, and in particular demanded to interrupt a particularly spectacular operation towards Salvador, with respect to about 200 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang.
These expulsions were carried out on the basis of an exceptional law of 1798, which allowed in the war to arrest “foreign enemies,” however, it took place.
The Trump administration argues that the planes had already taken off when this decision was issued, and that it did not violate it. This argument was in the heart on Monday of a hearing led by Judge Boasberg, who was skeptical and, according to the US media, he summoned the government to provide answers at noon on Tuesday at noon.
This is not the first time that Donald Trump has been attacking the judicial institution as a whole, according to him biased against him, but seems to have crossed a new level when asking for a private magistrate.
It depends on the House of Representatives to launch a procedure in the dismissal of a federal judge, but the magistrate can only be eliminated from their functions after a judgment and a vote of the Senate with a qualified majority, both for saying a very heavy procedure and that has almost no chance of arriving in an ultrapular political landscape.
Numerous decrees taken by Donald Trump since its inauguration on January 20 have been attacked in court and sometimes the magistrates believe that the US president exceeded his prerogatives.
On the contrary, the Republican billionaire ensures that it is the judges who leave their role to avoid applying their program, particularly in issues of immigration and budgetary reform.
Source: BFM TV
