Chief Justice Roberts decided he needed to opine on Trump’s anger at Judge James Boasberg and the judge’s asinine attempt to stop deportation flights of known illegal gang members and criminals.

As I wrote here, activists organizations found an activist judge to issue an oral order followed hastily by a written order. The result of that order was supposed to mean that two major deportation flights, already over international waters and well on their way to El Salvador were supposed to turn around. 

Remember, those who come here illegally and then commit additional crimes should, after arrest, face the consequences of deportation. That’s THE LAW. Furthermore, many of those criminals who are now in an El Salvadoran prison are affiliated with organizations (Tren de Aragua for example) that the Trump Administration has designated as terrorist/narco terrorist groups. 

But no sooner had Republicans and President Trump called for Boasberg’s impeachment, then the Democrats flipped their collective wigs. How DARE THEY??!! How dare the President designate these poor misunderstood migrants as alien enemies! 

Presidents are given the extraordinary power by the 227-year-old Alien Enemies Act to order the arrest, detention and deportation of noncitizens who are 14 years or older and come from countries staging an “invasion or predatory incursion” of the U.S.

James E. Boasberg, chief judge of the District Court for the U.S. District of Columbia, on Saturday implemented a temporary restraining order preventing their deportations for 14 days. The Justice Department appealed that decision, arguing the D.C. court has no authority over the case because none of the five men are in the district. Four are being held in detention in Texas and one in New York. They further argued that invocation of the Alien Enemies Act is “speculation.”

I love how those involved in the court filings along with the majority of the media are studiously ignoring Biden’s border policies that saw millions come in without ANY proper vetting whatsoever. We don’t actually KNOW how many criminals are here illegally and we don’t know where they are. We only find out when one of them commits a crime such as the killing of Jocelyn Nungaray or Laken Riley. To me, that’s the very definition of “PREDATORY INVASION.” Joe Biden and his administration put this country at major national security risk because they tossed all border controls into the trash. 

CNN was brilliantly schooled by Stephen Miller on the legality of Trump’s deportation and the very real national security aspects of this move. It’s well worth the time to watch it all. 

Stephen Miller on CNN talking about the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

Absolute must-see TV.pic.twitter.com/aDd2jPvkfq

— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) March 17, 2025

What’s illustrative about Miller’s schooling and the court cases launched against deportation efforts is that the media, Democrats, judges, and now Chief Justice Roberts are positioning themselves on the sides of not only illegal immigrants but criminals here illegally who’ve burned people to death, raped and murdered women and children, are involved in sex, weapons, and drug trafficking, and more criminal enterprises. The safety of American citizens is not their concern. 

President Trump and others “overstepping” their bounds is what seemingly concerns Chief Justice Roberts the most. 

“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 in a statement.

Trump allies have called for various judges to be impeached for blocking administration policies in the first months of his second term.

But Trump himself raised the stakes on Tuesday, when he called for the impeachment of U.S. District Judge James Boasberg after he blocked the deportation of Venezuelan migrants.

The question is, would Roberts have said anything if it was a Democrat President doing this? Given his past history, such as saving Obamacare or take a pass on religious freedom during Covid, I’d say the answer is no. More recently, he’s stayed silent on Joe Biden’s blatant statement that he’d ignore the Supreme Court’s ruling on student loans, and also just cannot find out who the culprit was who leaked the Dobbs decision! Furthermore, he’s not even stepped in and called a halt to judicial lawfare against Trump or American citizens. 

Sean Davis makes a great point here.

“For more than two centuries, the question of whether to impeach judges has been left solely to the elected representatives of the American people. John Roberts has no say in the matter, regardless of how much he wishes otherwise. Our Constitution gives John Roberts no power whatsoever when it comes to judicial impeachment, and it certainly doesn’t give him the power to “reject” congressional impeachment when and if it comes. ” 

Likewise this from Newt Gingrich:

If Chief Justice Roberts wants to minimize attacks on out of control appointed leftwing district court judges abusing their role and claiming to be able to overrule the elected President of the United States on management details that are clearly within his role as defined by the Constitution and the Federalist Papers then he should intervene and overrule these absurd power grabs. The Chief Justice can defend the Court by overruling bad judges before the Executive and Legislative Branches start acting against them. The burden is on the Chief Justice not the President.

What Justice Roberts is ALSO ignoring is that Judge Boasberg denied the DOJ any chance to respond or object before he issued his ruling over the weekend. That, it seems to me, is overstepping legal ethical bounds by a lot. 

Frankly, Chief Justice Roberts stepped in it by deciding to issue a weak lecture about judicial impeachment given his own history of refusing to consider the national security risks facing our nation with his own vote against securing our border. 

Feature Photo Credit: Roberts caricature by Donkeyhotey via Flickr, cropped and modified