Trump promises not to defy judges after being rebuked by Supreme Court chief justice

Trump’s remarks to Ingraham on the judiciary came after he had called for District Court Judge James Boasberg to be impeached earlier in the day as punishment for ruling against him on the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members.

That led Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, a fellow conservative, to hit back in a rare public statement, declaring that impeachment isn’t an appropriate response to disagreements with judges’ rulings.

“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Roberts said.

“The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”

Asked about it by Ingraham, Trump brushed it aside on the laughable basis that Roberts did not actually name him in the statement, suggesting he may not have been referring to the president himself after all.

Here are Andrew Feinberg and Gustaf Kilander with more on Roberts’ surprise move.

The president has claimed his administration would not openly defy court orders – despite declarations from top aides to not care about judges’ decisions amid a slew of rulings across the country against immigrant deportations and federal firings.

Trump appeared to take the multiple court losses personally.

He told Fox News host Laura Ingraham in an interview last night that nobody “has been through more courts than I have,” citing his experience as a criminal defendant in multiple court cases and countless civil lawsuits over the years, and complained he has had “the worst judges” in the various cases.

But when pressed by Ingraham on whether his administration would flout court orders from judges who have ordered his administration to stop deporting people under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act and on other court orders blocking his administration’s effort to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development and fire tens of thousands of federal workers, Trump insisted that he “never did defy a court order” as president.

“No, you can’t do that,” he said.

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Hours later, he was arrested.

Chief Justice John Roberts has hit back against in a rare public statement after President Donald Trump on Monday claimed a federal judge lacks the authority to review his administration’s attempts to bypass due process rights when deporting migrants who are alleged to be gang members — and called for the judge to be impeached.

In a statement issued by the court, Roberts said that impeachment isn’t an appropriate response to disagreements with judges’ rulings.

Andrew Feinberg and Gustaf Kilander report from Washington, D.C.

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The Health and Human Services Department is weighing plans to drastically cut the federal government’s funding for domestic HIV prevention, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing people familiar with the matter.

The plans could be announced within a day, according to sources, but they haven’t been finalized and could be pulled back or adjusted.

The discussions arise as the Trump administration prepares for significant personnel cuts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, part of an agency reorganization, people familiar with the planning said.

The cuts and reorganization aim to exploit a weakness in the agency’s legal framework: No single law defines its purposes and authorizes its various programs.

The CDC has a department focused on preventing HIV and other infectious diseases. This department funds state and local surveillance programs for HIV, syringe services, and community outreach initiatives.

The agency reported spending approximately $1.3 billion on preventing HIV, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections, and tuberculosis during the 2023 fiscal year, as stated on its website.

The Health Department said it is following the administration’s guidance and taking a careful look at all divisions to see where there is overlap that could be streamlined to support the president’s broader efforts to restructure the federal government.

“No final decision on streamlining CDC’s HIV Prevention Division has been made,” a department spokesman to the Journal.