Trump's judge grudge
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The biggest story in the country right now is one of gross incompetence. By now, you've surely heard about the group chat where a bunch of our nation's top security brass accidentally added a journalist to a signal thread where plans to bomb Houthis in Yemen were laid out. The president of the United States said it's news to him.
I don't know anything about it. I'm not a big fan of the Atlantic.
The Fox News Secretary of Defense is trying to discredit the journalist who was added to the chat against his will. You're talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist. And Speaker Mike Johnson says everyone did a great job.
What you did see, though, I think, was top-level officials doing their job, doing it well.
The federal government is not in its accountability era, but somehow, concurrently, this administration is calling for federal judges to be impeached for doing their actual jobs. That is coming up on Today Explained.
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Today Explained, Kate Shaw is a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Cary Law School. She's also the co-host of a podcast called Strict Scrutiny. We asked her what's up with Trump and the judges.
Trump has fared remarkably poorly in litigation in the last two months. He really is on an impressive losing streak. He's 0 for 3 in the courts of appeals in trying to defend the constitutionality of his birthright citizenship executive order. He has been losing in cases... challenging various aspects of Elon Musk's role in government and Doge and the activities of Doge. In the only two cases to reach the Supreme Court so far, those were both like very early stage procedural matters, but he lost both of them. And he's notched a couple of wins in the lower courts, but mostly on kind of procedural issues. Is this person really the right person to be bringing a challenge? So he's losing a lot and he's clearly really unhappy about it.
And the biggest controversy in all of the losses is perhaps the situation with El Salvador.
I mean, I think it's the one that he is the most incensed about. That seems clear, right? And so that is the invocation of this 1798 statute, the Alien Enemies Act, that's been used, right, three times, always in wartime, 1812, World War I, World War II, now. They try to make an argument that this Venezuelan gang, TDA, Tren de Aregua, is somehow working in concert with the Venezuelan government in ways that makes them a state actor that we're basically engaged in active hostilities with, because that's the predicate for invoking this old statute, and that that allows essentially the... designating individuals as alien enemies and expelling them, essentially, to this prison in El Salvador. And that has been challenged. And it is before this district judge, Judge Boasberg. And that seems to be the kind of, it's not, you know, there's been some preliminary determinations made, but it's pretty clear the administration is going to lose big in front of Judge Boasberg.
But for sure, this is the one that I think has Trump the most spun up based on his social media.
Truth Social. Judge James Boasberg is doing everything in his power to usurp the power of the presidency. He is a local, unknown judge, a grandstander looking for publicity, and it cannot be for any other reason because his rulings are so ridiculous and inept. Save America!
Yeah, I mean, he has taken to Truth Social and basically called for Boasberg to be impeached. He has called him a radical left lunatic of a judge, a troublemaker and an agitator, which I don't know this judge, but no, that is not an accurate characterization of him, right?
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