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President Donald Trump’s issues with the judiciary are continuing as U.S. District Judge James Boasberg extended his temporary restraining order to halt deportation flights using the Alien Enemies Act on Friday.
The order was set to expire on March 29, but Boasberg extended it to April 12, “or until further order of the Court,” Newsweek reported.
“The continued interference by an unelected activist judge in the foreign policy of the United States is a clear obstruction of President Trump’s constitutional authority and threatens the safety and security of all Americans,” a spokesperson for the Department of Justice told Newsweek.
On Thursday, after Boasberg was assigned a lawsuit regarding a journalist being added to a Signal chat with high-ranking defense officials, Trump lashed out at the judge.
“How disgraceful is it that ‘Judge’ James Boasberg has just been given a fourth ‘Trump Case,’ something which is, statistically, IMPOSSIBLE. There is no way for a Republican, especially a TRUMP REPUBLICAN, to win before him,” the president said on his TruthSocial account the day before Boasberg extended his order halting deportation flights.
“He is Highly Conflicted, not only in his hatred of me — Massive Trump Derangement Syndrome! — but also, because of disqualifying family conflicts. Boasberg, who is the Chief Judge of the D.C. District Court, seems to be grabbing the ‘Trump Cases’ all to himself, even though it is not supposed to happen that way,” the president said.
“Is there still such a thing as the ‘wheel,’ where the Judges are chosen fairly, and at random? The good news is that it probably doesn’t matter, because it is virtually impossible for me to get an Honest Ruling in D.C. Our Nation’s Courts are broken, with New York and D.C. being the most preeminent of all in their Corruption and Radicalism. There must be an immediate investigation of this Rigged System, before it is too late!” he said.
Also Friday, the administration requested that the U.S. Supreme Court intervene in the contentious legal dispute, which involves Trump’s invoking the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 law he utilized to swiftly deport suspected members of a Venezuelan gang deemed a terrorist organization.
The filing asks justices to reverse Boasberg’s order and uphold Trump’s use of the law to justify the rapid deportations. It is, thus far, arguably the most important case currently pending on the court’s docket, CNN reported.