President Donald Trump screamed “conflict of interest” while going after the judge who temporarily ordered he halt migrant deportations done under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
“SUCH A CONFLICT OF INTEREST!” Trump wrote in all caps.
The accusation was thin at best.
Trump began to direct his ire at Boasberg last weekend, almost immediately after the judge ordered a flight deporting a group of Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador to be stopped.
Though Trump ignored the order, that didn’t stop him from lashing out at Boasberg online, where he dubbed him a “troublemaker and agitator” while calling for his impeachment.
The outburst was enough to make the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice John Roberts rebuke the president in a statement, where he reminded him that impeachment was “not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision.”