Donald Trump's first 100 days in office: a collision with judges who opposed his policy | Today news

In the first 100 days of his second term, US President Donald Trump found himself in a fierce confrontation with the federal judiciary. Several statements from the most important court blocked its controversial mass fire and deportations policy, which led to a growing legal battle. Trump responded with sharp criticism of the judges involved. Like the legal challenges Mount, the clash between the Trump administration and the courts became one of the most important aspects of his early term. Federal judges pushed back against mass fire on March 14, and US district judge William Alsup in San Francisco ordered the Trump administration to regain thousands of federal trials fired in February. Judge Alsup, appointed by President Bill Clinton, found the office of the Mass Firings of Staff Management (OPM) illegal. “It’s a sad day when our government would fire a good employee and say it is based on performance if they know well and that it is a lie,” Alsup said. Alsup criticized the administration for trying to prevent OPM’s acting director Charles Ezell from testifying, after the written statement from Ezell was withdrawn. Judge James Bredar in Maryland also ruled against the dismissal, which issued a two-week stop and found that Trump officials bypassed the right procedures. Boasberg blocks deportations amid resistance on March 15, Judge James Boasberg issued a temporary restriction order that blocks the deportations under Trump’s executive orders. However, the administration continued with the deportations to El Salvador, which increased the tension. In court, Boasberg attempted to order that deportation flights be returned, arguing that the administration was in an overt resistance. According to CNN, Boasberg demanded clarity on Trump’s use of the alien enemies Act of 1798 to justify the removal, questioning the timing of deportations. Trump later knocked out at Boasberg on Truth Social and called him a “radical left hand” and claimed: “This judge, like many of the crooked judges I am forced to appear, must be charged !!!” Trump warns the judges to refuse too much after dismissal statements on March 17, Trump defended his mass estimates of about 30,000 trials of federal employees after two judges blocked the move. Trump calls the decisions ‘ridiculous’ and warned that judges exceeded the presidential authority. Judges William Alsup and James Bredar ruled the fire illegally, ordering the reinstatement of the layoffs. Trump is raging against legal supervision on March 22, Trump warned that nationwide orders issued by federal judges could lead to ‘the destruction of our country’. He accused judges of using “presidential authority” and demanding action by Chief Justice John Roberts. “Illegal nationwide orders by radical left -wing judges can very well lead to the destruction of our country! These people are fancy,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. He singled out Boasberg again and branded him a “big star in search of publicity”. The direct setbacks for Trump by March 24 appealed to the Justice Department of Alsup’s ruling to the US High Court after being ordered to reinstate fired workers. The administration has drafted its federal decline in initiative as an important reform to ‘inefficiency’ in government, supported by billionaire Elon Musk. On March 25, US Circuit Judge Patricia Millett blew Trump’s deportation policy into a fierce hearing and said: “Nazis got more rights to dispute their removal from the United States during World War II,” according to the Washington Post. The remark highlighted the concern that Venezuelan migrants were denied basic legal rights. Judges warn against constitutional offenses on April 4, Judge Paula Xinis ordered the Trump administration to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, which was mistakenly deported to El Salvador. “From the moment it seized, it was unconstitutional,” Xinis said according to NPR. Advocates for the Department of Justice acknowledged that the deportation was an administrative error, but argued that the judge did not have authority because Garcia was no longer in US supervision. Meanwhile, Boasberg ruled on April 16 that there is “likely cause” to keep Trump officials in criminal disdain for ignoring a court order blocking the deportations, the New York Times reports. The Supreme Court entered an emergency decision on April 7- On April 19, the US Supreme Court temporarily blocked the administration’s use of the foreign enemies Act to deport Venezuelan prisoners. The court ordered the government “not to remove a member of the alleged class of prisoners to further order.” A federal judge in Colorado also ordered Venezolese to be notified 21 days on April 22, which added further obstacles to Trump’s immigration suppression. Trump warns against “dangerous country” after the delays of migrating deportation on April 23 again criticized the judges for blocking his efforts to migrant portation, and argued that the US justice system was not built to give every migrant a complete hearing. In response to the recent court rulings requiring the necessary process before the deportations, Trump said the system was not intended for mass hearings and warned that delays could make the country ‘very dangerous’. Trump administration indicates the prosecution of judges, the position reached a new extreme on April 28 when White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt suggested that federal or even Supreme Court judges could face prosecution if they hampered federal immigration. When asked if the administration would arrest judges, Leavitt said: “Anyone who violates the law or impedes the federal law enforcement to do their work keeps themselves at risk of being prosecuted, absolutely.” She added that judges who help migrants have made detention have made a clear case of obstruction. First published: 29 Apr 2025, 02:42 AM IST