This report is part of a series looking at how President Donald Trump has used the power of his office in his second term to challenge the boundaries the legal system puts on presidential actions.
Days after Judge James E. Boasberg ruled against President Donald Trump’s plans to quickly deport alleged members of a Venezuelan criminal gang, the president called for Congress to remove the judge from the bench.
“HE DIDN’T WIN ANYTHING! I WON FOR MANY REASONS, IN AN OVERWHELMING MANDATE,” Trump wrote in a social media post about the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.