Donald Trump lashed out at the federal courts on Wednesday, claiming judges are “radicalized” and “totally OUT OF CONTROL” after a major legal blow to his immigration policy.
“Can you believe it?” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “A Judge ruled against us on 530,000 Illegal Migrants… saying that they can’t be looked at as a group, but that each case has to be tried individually.”
The former president is furious over a court ruling that blocks his administration from using a wartime-era law — the Alien Enemies Act — to mass-deport alleged Venezuelan gang members. The judge’s decision means each migrant must get an individual hearing, something Trump says could take “approximately 100 years.”
“They seem to hate ‘TRUMP’ so much, that anything goes!” he wrote. “What Common Sense do we have when we have to have 530,000 trials?”
Trump blasted the ruling as pure politics, accusing the judge of siding with President Biden’s immigration agenda. “This Radicalized Judge is saying that Sleepy Joe Biden can fly more than half a million Illegals into America, IN ONE DAY, but we have to hold many years of long and tedious trials to fly each and every one of them back home. Where is the JUSTICE here???”
The ruling came from Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who issued a scathing 46-page opinion accusing Trump officials of defying a court order that blocked mass deportations. Boasberg found there was probable cause to start criminal contempt proceedings against those officials.
“The court does not reach such conclusions lightly or hastily,” Boasberg wrote. “Indeed, it has given defendants ample opportunity to explain their actions. None of their responses have been satisfactory.”
He also issued a warning: if the Justice Department refuses to move forward with contempt charges, he’ll appoint an outside prosecutor to do it himself.
The contempt threat marks a serious escalation in the legal fight over Trump’s use of executive power to bypass immigration law. It also adds to growing pressure from the judiciary on Trump-era officials who pushed the limits of deportation authority.
And this isn’t the only courtroom fire Trump is under. In a separate case, another federal judge, Paula Xinis, ordered the administration to explain its actions after the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Ábrego García, a man who had been legally protected from being sent back to El Salvador. Judge Xinis demanded written answers and testimony on whether the government obeyed a Supreme Court order.
Trump, meanwhile, insists the real issue is the courts themselves, not him.
“We are trying to bring our Country back from the destruction caused by the Democrats and Crooked Joe Biden,” he wrote. “What is going on with our Courts? They are totally OUT OF CONTROL.”
