Trump Calls For Judge’s Impeachment as Courtroom Battles Over Deportations Escalate

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🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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President Donald Trump has called for the impeachment of the federal judge who ordered a halt on the administration’s deportation of hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members under a rarely used 18th-century wartime law. The administration went ahead with the deportations over the weekend despite the judge’s order. The clash comes a few weeks after the controversial arrest of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder who is facing possible deportation for his role in Gaza protests. We’ll get the latest on Trump’s recent immigration actions and the legal battles surrounding them. Guests: Ted Hasson, immigration reporter, Reuters Deep Gulasekaram, professor of law and director of Byron White Center for the Study of Constitutional Law, University of Colorado Boulder Law School; co author, the leading immigration law textbook used in U.S. law schools Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.0	As the Trump administration tests the limits of its power around immigration and deportation,
1:13.2	they're getting pushback from civil libertarians, legal scholars, and judges, including Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
1:21.6	The president used a law from 1798, the Alien Enemies Act, to deport men accused of being in a Venezuelan prison gang.
1:29.2	A federal judge ordered the deportation to stop. Now the judge wants to know why his order was ignored. That, plus the attempt to deport a Columbia University student who participated in pro-Palestinian protests,
1:34.5	even though he was a legal resident with a green card, is testing the boundaries of presidential
1:39.0	authority. We'll examine the issues next on Forum after this news.
1:53.0	Good morning and welcome to Forum. I'm Scott Schaefer in today for Alexis Madrigal.
2:01.0	And this hour, the legal fight over President Trump's efforts to test the limits of power over issues of immigration and deportation.
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