Trump goes to war with the law
The News Agents - USA
Global
4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
The chief justice of the US Supreme Court has issued a stinging rebuke to Donald Trump's demand to impeach a judge who ruled against his administration's controversial deportation of migrants.
Judge James Boasberg ordered a stop to the transfer of accused gang members to El Salvador. That ruling that was ignored, and Trump branded him a "troublemaker and agitator" who should be removed. In a rare statement, Justice Roberts insisted that impeachment was "not an appropriate response" to the disagreement, and it has led to unease in some Republican circles about the erosion of the authority of the judiciary.
The White House has also been targeting commercial law firms who have worked on cases that have cast Trump in a bad light. How far will the Trump administration push this war on the law? We speak to Gregg Nunziata, Executive Director of the Society for the Rule of Law, and former advisor to Marco Rubio.
Later, Chuck Schumer feels the heat for splitting with the House Democrats and allowing a vote on a Republican spending plan in order to avoid a government shutdown. A small but growing number of Congressmen are now calling for Schumer to step aside as Senate Minority Leader - where does the party go now?
Editor: Tom Hughes
Executive Producer: Louis Degenhardt
Producer: Natalie Indge
Digital Editor: Michaela Walters
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
Video Production: Rory Symon, Shane Fennelly & Arvind Badewal
Digital Journalist: Michael Baggs
Don’t forget you can also subscribe to our other News Agents podcasts via the link below:
https://linktr.ee/thenewsagents
The News Agents now have merch! Click here to buy yours now: https://store.global.com/collections/the-news-agents
The News Agents USA is brought to you by HSBC UK - https://www.hsbc.co.uk/
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA Podcast is brought to you by HSBC, UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.6 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.4 | I never did defy a court order. |
| 0:15.0 | And you wouldn't in the future. |
| 0:16.0 | No, you can't do that. |
| 0:17.3 | However, we have bad judges. |
| 0:19.0 | We have very bad judges. |
| 0:20.6 | And these are judges that shouldn't be allowed. I think they, I think at a certain However, we have bad judges. We have very bad judges. And these are judges that |
| 0:21.9 | shouldn't be allowed. I think they, I think at a certain point, you have to start looking at |
| 0:25.9 | what do you do when you have a rogue judge. The judge that we're talking about, he's, you look |
| 0:31.4 | at his other rulings. I mean, rulings unrelated. But having to do with me, he's a lunatic. |
| 0:39.1 | Trump is at war with the law, not for the first time, you might think, but it appears to have |
| 0:46.1 | reached a climax this week because Trump is calling on one individual judge to be impeached |
| 0:53.8 | because he doesn't like his ruling. |
| 0:57.4 | By all means, get rid of a judge if they are drunk, if they don't turn up for work, |
| 1:02.7 | if they do any number of other things. |
| 1:05.2 | But the judge's job is to interpret the law. |
| 1:09.4 | And Donald Trump doesn't want that that and so people have started to talk |
| 1:13.7 | about America potentially entering a constitutional crisis because Donald Trump wants to break down |
| 1:22.9 | the independence of the judiciary. How seriously should we be taking that? Welcome to the Newsagents USA. |
| 1:36.2 | It's John. It's Emily. And this week we have been looking at the deportation of Venezuelans, predominantly |
| 1:43.8 | Venezuelan men, who are being sent to El Salvador |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Global, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Global and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.