President Donald Trump’s call Tuesday to impeach a federal judge ramps up pressure on the House Republican majority to break with a centuries-old tradition of not seeking to remove judges from the bench based only on their decisions.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. gave a rare rebuke to a social media post from Trump that said a judge in Washington who ordered a temporary halt to a Trump deportation effort should be impeached.
“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Roberts said in a statement sent to reporters. “The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”
