Legal AF by MeidasTouch - Chief Justice Issues Shock Statement on Trump

Episode Date: March 18, 2025

In an unprecedented and historic development, Chief Justice Roberts has opened a direct dialogue with Trump in public, admonishing him in a statement in real-time for attacking Federal Judge Boasberg this morning for blocking his illegal use of war powers to deport people in a social media rant, calling him a lunatic and calling for his all caps “IMPEACHMENT”. Michael Popok takes a deep dive into Roberts' direct finger-wagging at Trump, his historic decision to do it outside the confines of an actual court ruling as the chief administrator and defender of the federal court system, and what it could mean when the case ends up before the Supreme Court. Go to http://mackweldon.com/?utm_source=streaming&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=podcastlaunch&utm_content=LEGALAFutm_term=LEGALAF and get 20% off your first order with promo code LEGALAF Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Got some extraordinary breaking news. Chief Justice Roberts is in dialogue with Donald Trump. Well, it's one-sided. Chief Justice Roberts just issued a statement telling Donald Trump to knock it off and stop calling for impeachment of federal judges when he doesn't like or appreciate their rulings against him, telling him in no uncertain terms in a statement, not tied to a case, just a direct statement from Chief Justice Roberts to Donald Trump and to the public, telling him, if you don't like a ruling by a federal judge,

your process is appeal, not impeachment. Appeal, not impeachment. Donald Trump attacked the judge. This is the judge that issued the injunction to stop him from using the Alien Enemies Act to continue to deport under a phony war power, a phony exercise of war power, claiming that the enemy combatants need to be expelled immediately from America. And in response to that, he went after the judge, after the judge issued his broad temporary restraining order that's being litigated

as we speak right now in front of this particular judge. I'm Michael Popock. You're on the Midas Touch Network and Legal AF. Let's get into this extraordinary, extraordinary moment where the chief justice in his role as the chief administrator for all things federal court felt it was incumbent upon him to speak his mind, even when there was no case in front of him. I can't think in the last 30 years or 40 years where a chief judge has done that. Look, this chief judge is not covering himself in any glory about he emboldened Donald Trump to become president.

He gave him immunity for most of his or all of his criminal, his criminal conduct or behavior. And now he's trying to put the genie back in the bottle. I mean, this is the same Chief Justice that refused to preside over one of the impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump after Jan 6, because Donald Trump was no longer president. So he wasn't going to preside over the impeachment proceeding. So he's bent over backwards to help Donald Trump when he can. So for this person to now come forward and just say what he said is extraordinary. This is what the, let me read to you first what Donald Trump said. Donald Trump says, because they're all claiming that Judge Boasberg, the chief judge of the district court in DC, has no jurisdiction, no power over Donald Trump because he's exercising his commander in chief powers, which he's not. This is what Trump called Boasberg crooked,

called him an agitator. He said, this judge, like many of the crooked judges I'm forced to appear before, should be impeached all in caps. This was on Truth Social on Tuesday morning. We don't want vicious, violent, and demented criminals, many of them deranged murderers in our country. Of course, Boasberg did not decline to respond to that, but he continued. This is what the judge said. This is what Trump said, the radical left

lunatic of a judge, here we go again, a troublemaker, an agitator who was sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, was not elected president. He didn't win the popular vote by a lot. He didn't win all seven swing states. He didn't win 2750 to 525 counties. He didn't win anything. I won for many reasons in an overwhelming mandate, but fighting illegal immigration may have been the number one reason for this historic victory. I'm just doing what the voters want me to do. And in response, John Roberts, again, this is not normal, everybody, but let me just read you what he wrote.

Roberts said that, quote, for more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose. I can't express to you enough as a practicing lawyer how unusual, I guess is the right word, this is to have a Supreme Court justice in open dialogue with the president of the United States telling that guy, the president, back off and don't go after my federal judges that I'm responsible for as the head of Article 3. You may be head of Article 2, but I'm head of Article 3. And in other words,

I don't want to hear about your popular vote. I don't want to hear about your mandate. And if you've got a problem with one of my federal judges, the call is not for impeachment or his head, or as another judge, Beryl Howell once said, like you're the queen of hearts and you're displeased with somebody in front of you, so it's off with his head.

That's not what you do in this country. And the fact that Roberts felt that he had to reach out and do that at this moment in time shows you the extraordinary pressure the Supreme Court is under. I have a secret weapon. I got a joke in my back pocket that I can pull out at a dinner party and it's never failed to bring down the house.

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but for the soul of America at this very moment. And Roberts is declaring where he sides. I don't know about pinning back all of Donald Trump's presidential powers when those cases inevitably come up like the substance and merits of this case come up. You know what they're gonna try to do now. They're gonna try to argue the Chief Justice Robert

should be disqualified from presiding over Donald Trump's cases or this case in particular at the appellate level because he's already a predisposition against Donald Trump. But that would mean that there's that would mean I don't know what's going to happen. I think we then potentially have a four-4 tie and the Supreme Court would be incapable of issuing any rulings. If Roberts actually recused himself, which he won't, it wouldn't get Donald Trump what he wants anyway because the Supreme Court wouldn't have the five votes to approve what

he's doing. So careful what you wish for. I don't think even in their wildest imagination, the Trump administration and its half-baked legal gurus thought that they were going to catch the ire of Chief Justice Roberts before an actual case where he could write something like that. The fact that he made a statement as the administrator of the federal courts is beyond extraordinary. And what it signals to Donald Trump about what he's doing. The fact that Roberts woke up in the morning and said, I got to step in and make a statement to show the battle, the friction, if you will, between Article 3 judges and Article 2 president. I mean, well, this is the checks and balance

we've been waiting for. I just thought it was gonna have to come in the form of a case or a decision. But not, Roberts woke up, brushed his teeth this morning and said, I gotta protect Jeb Boesberg after, and it just happened. I mean, this is sequential, one after another, crazy attacks on the presidency.

Now we, by the president, on a federal judge, we've seen this before with Donald Trump. We've seen it in criminal defendant Trump. We've seen it in criminal convicted defendant Trump. Going after Judge Mershon, the state court judge, the Supreme Court judge in New York, and his wife and his daughter, Supreme Court judge in New York and his wife and his daughter. And of course he got convicted on 34 felony counts there. Going against Judge Angoron, the Supreme Court justice in New York who presided over his $450 million civil fraud case against his wife and his law clerk, all women. Going up against Chutkin, the federal judge in DC who presided over his criminal case there. It's always the same. They're depraved. They're lunatics. They're out of control.

They're animals. They're liberals. They're just doing their job just like you're allegedly doing your job. This is what they get paid to do. This is why they got lifetime appointments. And who cares who, in this moment in time, who cares who appointed them? Chief Justice Roberts, who was appointed by a Republican, is up against you now and calling you out. So what's gonna happen next?

Well, there's a number of parallel things all going on at the same time as Chief Justice Roberts just stuck his finger in it. You got Boasberg who's still presiding. Donald Trump tried to get rid of him at the DC appellate court and they did not respond. He said, oh, he's making some crazy decisions on temporary restraining orders, restraining the power of the presidency.

He needs to be removed as the judge. That didn't work. He then tried to convince Judge Boasberg that he didn't have jurisdiction over anything over the president. That didn't work. Then they went into a hearing on fact-finding to determine whether the Trump administration committed contempt. And there's going to be a filing today about that that we'll report on. At the same time, the actual underlying injunction is being litigated at the same time with the Trump administration filing their paper to dissolve that order in which Judge Boesberg certified a class of all those who were subject to the Alien Enemies Act and prevented them from being continued to be deported as he determines whether they were already deported in violation

of his order. So all that's going on throughout this week which will end up at the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and then up at the United States Supreme Court and then we have Roberts signaling to everybody you want to talk appeal talk appeal but don't talk to me about impeachment or call in for one of my federal judges heads on a pike. We'll continue to follow it all right here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF. Until my next reporting, I'm Michael Popak. right here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF.

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