Trump pressures courts after reprimand on deportations

U.S. President Donald Trump demanded on March 20, 2025, that courts stop blocking his agenda, edging closer to a constitutional showdown after a judge suggested the administration had ignored an order to block summary deportations.

U.S. President Donald Trump demanded on Thursday (March 20, 2025) that courts stop blocking his agenda, edging closer to a constitutional showdown after a judge suggested the administration had ignored an order to block summary deportations.

A federal judge, in a strongly worded order, gave the Justice Department until Tuesday to explain why it went ahead with flights to El Salvador of prison-bound Venezuelan migrants, some of whose representatives say they had committed no crime and were targeted only for their tattoos.

President Trump, in a scathing attack on the judiciary that would have been unthinkable coming from most presidents, demanded that the Supreme Court intervene.

“It is our goal to Make America great again, and such a high aspiration can never be done if Radical and Highly Partisan Judges are allowed to stand in the way of justice,” President Trump wrote in a post on his online platform Truth Social aimed at Chief Justice John Roberts.

“STOP NATIONWIDE INJUNCTIONS NOW, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE,” he wrote in all capital letters.

“If Justice Roberts and the United States Supreme Court do not fix this toxic and unprecedented situation IMMEDIATELY, our Country is in very serious trouble!”

Justice Roberts, who was nominated by Republican George W. Bush, a day earlier issued a rare rebuke by the country’s top justice to remarks of the president after President Trump called for the impeachment of the judge who ruled on the deportation case.