Donald Trump gets Legal Fact Check from Chief Justice Roberts
The Beat with Ari Melber
Ari Melber, MS NOW
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🗓️ 18 March 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | there's a lot of other news going on right now, including the story that we brought you last night, |
| 0:05.5 | which has a major development. I am going to explain it like this. The country is following a |
| 0:11.3 | mountain clash between the Trump administration's effort to declare wartime powers, powers to deport |
| 0:18.5 | when there is no war. Now, that was ruled unlawful by a federal judge. Then there were |
| 0:23.8 | reports that Trump officials deliberately defied that judge's order. President Trump then unloading |
| 0:29.6 | on that same judge, demanding his ousting through impeachment, all of this coming through in the |
| 0:35.1 | past 24 hours on this story that we've been bringing you. Now, the court process part will take time. |
| 0:39.8 | But as this clash escalated, legal experts wondered if and how the Supreme Court would view |
| 0:44.1 | these blatant efforts to test or defy court orders, and would they weigh in in some manner |
| 0:49.5 | or more quickly? |
| 0:51.5 | Because Trump is accused here of not only obviously violating the law, |
| 0:58.2 | full stop, saying I have wartime powers when there's no war, but then furthermore, |
| 1:03.9 | allegations and evidence that he would abuse power and try to intimidate that judge, |
| 1:07.8 | pushing for the impeachment, which is usually reserved, of course, for |
| 1:11.3 | bribery or misconduct, nothing like this. But that might be a ploy to put pressure on judges or to |
| 1:18.0 | oust them. Trump's DOJ also taking related measures, asking that this judge be removed from the case |
| 1:24.3 | while legal experts see no grounds for that. So tonight, as we return to |
| 1:29.1 | this ongoing story, that was one of the big questions. How would the Supreme Court or Chief Justice |
| 1:33.7 | Roberts respond? And the news is an extraordinary public rebuke of President Trump from the Supreme |
| 1:41.9 | Court Chief Justice himself, from the famous leader of this court, a Republican appointee, by the way. |
| 1:51.5 | This is, and I'm about to read it to you, it's brief and clear, a striking and rare development. |
| 1:58.0 | Justice is rarely common on pending government disputes outside of the court |
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