Posting on his Truth Social social media platform at around 9:00 am EST on the morning of Tuesday, March 18, President Donald Trump called for the impeachment of U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg, calling the judge a far-left loon who ought to face consequences for trying to aid “demented criminals…many of them murderers” with his recent ruling.
As background, the fight over the deportation of Tren de Aragua gang members began when President Trump, on Friday, March 14, invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a John Adams-era act that allows the federal government to deport citizens of an enemy nation without an immigration or deportation hearing. Before Trump, the act was invoked during the War of 1812, World War I, and World War II.
Then, after President Trump started deporting gangsters from Venezuela under the act, flying them to prison in El Salvador, which is keeping them locked up for a small fee, Judge Boasberg issued an order in which he demanded an immediate stop of the deportations and return of the planes with the gangster on them while the courts determine whether the administration’s invocation of the act was legal. By then the planes were already out of US airspace, and the Trump Administration didn’t return the deported gang members.
President Trump then sounded off on Truth Social, slamming the judge’s attempts to usurp the powers of the presidency. Doing so in the beginning of his social media tirade, the president also posted about Judge Boaserg’s background as an Obama appointee and status as a “troublemaker,” writing, “This Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator who was sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, was not elected President.”
Continuing, President Trump contrasted his sweeping electoral victory in November of 2024 with the fact that Judge Boasberg wasn’t elected, using that to indicate that the administration’s foreign policy priorities should take precedence and be seen as the will of the people. He said, “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.”
The president then called for the impeachment of Judge Boasberg, writing that the Trump Administration is doing what voters called on it to do, and that Judge Boasberg’s attempts to stop that should lead to his punishment via impeachment. He wrote, “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!!!”
Concluding, the president noted that the judge shouldn’t be allowed to fill America with “deranged murderers” and violent gangsters. He said, “WE DON’T WANT VICIOUS, VIOLENT, AND DEMENTED CRIMINALS, MANY OF THEM DERANGED MURDERERS, IN OUR COUNTRY. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
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Watch the video of the deported gangsters arriving in El Salvadorian prison that Nayyib Bukele posted here:
President Trump wasn’t the only one calling for impeachment. Many conservatives on X did the same. One large conservative account, for example, wrote, “U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has not only blocked President Trump’s deportation of foreign gang members, he’s ordered that the ones already on a plane out of the country be returned. This is treason. This Obama-appointed activist judge needs to be impeach, prosecuted, and jailed. Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act is legal and appropriate. The judge blocking it is a criminal just like the illegals he’s protecting.”
Similarly, conservative legal analyst Mike Davis wrote, “The President of the United States correctly designated Tren de Aragua (TdA), a vicious Venezuelan gang, as a foreign-terrorist organization. The President correctly put these terrorists on planes to get them the hell out of our country. Yet DC Obama Judge James Boasberg thinks he has the power to order the President to turn around the planes in mid-air and bring back these terrorists into America. This is the most dangerous constitutional crisis imaginable. I do not say this lightly: The President has a constitutional duty, as the chief executive officer and commander-in-chief, to ignore Judge Boasberg’s lawless and dangerous order. The Supreme Court must use the emergency docket to immediately stay Judge Boasberg’s order. Next week, the House must impeach Judge Boasberg. And defund his court.”