Israel targeting West Bank refugee camps is ethnic cleansing, analyst
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Cuban-born rep alerts DHS to alleged Castro-connected ‘refugees’ living in US under federal program
EXCLUSIVE: A congressman who fled Cuba in the 1960s will send DHS a list of people allegedly tied to the communist regime who are circumventing U.S. Cuban refugee laws. Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., will transmit to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a letter including a list of Cubans residing in the U.S. under various humanitarian laws or programs that he and/or pro-Cuban-democracy groups attest are actually tied directly to the communist regime in Havana, Fox News Digital has learned. Gimenez, who also represents the congressional district closest to Cuba – in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties – will tell Noem of the “presence of agents of the murderous Castro regime and the Communist Party of Cuba currently residing in the United States.” In the letter, obtained by Fox News Digital, Gimenez continues that “it is imperative that the Department of Homeland Security enforce existing U.S. laws to identify, deport, and repatriate these individuals who pose a direct threat to our national security, the integrity of our immigration system, and the safety of Cuban exiles and American citizens alike.” CUBA-BORN REP RECOUNTS FIRST EMOTIONAL RETURN TO HOMELAND IN 64 YEARS ON CONGRESSIONAL GITMO TRIP Gimenez said the Cuban Adjustment Act – a 1966 law written by Rep. Jacob H. Gilbert, D-N.Y., that laid out how to handle the unique situation of Cuban refugees from the then-new Castro regime – and other laws were designed to help those fleeing communism, not assisting in it. The Miamian – who is also the only Cuban-born member of Congress – wrote of people “with direct ties to the Communist Party of Cuba and the repressive state security apparatus” who have “gamed” the U.S. immigration system and are a direct insult to true Cuban exiles seeking personal freedom. Gimenez then included a list of about 100 people personally denounced by nonprofit organizations and human rights watchdog groups, asking Noem’s office to “thoroughly vet” the list and start deportation proceedings if their malign credentials check out. Of the names, several are labeled as tied to or members of Brigadas de Accion Rapida – or Rapid Response Brigade. That group is made up of designated citizens who essentially patrol for dissidents of dictator Miguel Diaz-Canel and his regime. EXCLUSIVE: VENEZUELAN OPPO LEADER JOINS CUBA-BORN REP TO LAUD TRUMP AFTER BIDEN’S MADURO OIL DEAL CANCELED Others were listed as affiliated with the Cuban Union of Young Communists, high-ranking officers in the country’s military tribunal, Cuban State Department, Cuban Communist Party leadership, police forces, and the equivalent of district attorneys offices. While Miami and surrounding areas continue to see their collective Cuban-American community grow and flourish – particularly along SE 8th Street, the famed Calle Ocho of Little Havana – Gimenez said he wants to work with DHS to identify, vet, detain and deport anyone living as such “despicable fraudsters in our country.” “Like so many in our community, I was forced from my native homeland of Cuba shortly after the communist revolution and it is absolutely reprehensible how agents of the murderous Castro regime have gamed our immigration laws to infiltrate our country,” Gimenez said. Gimenez said the Trump administration recently caught a Cuban spy in Florida and expects more action against those flagged by Cuban rights groups. DHS declined to publicly share the former intelligence officer’s name, but the Miami Herald reported ICE and the FBI arrested him in West Park, Florida – near the Miami Dolphins stadium – for fraudulently obtaining a green card. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “I applaud President Trump and his administration for that swift action,” Gimenez said. Fox News Digital reached out to DHS for comment on its overall stance toward the Castro/Diaz-Canel regime and calls to democratize Cuba.
Trump rescinds Biden-era policy declaring DEI an ‘integral’ part of scientific process
FIRST ON FOX: As part of the Trump administration’s efforts to peel back Biden-era diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) requirements, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) rescinded the agency’s “Scientific Integrity Policy” implemented under President Joe Biden. A “Final Scientific Integrity Policy” was unveiled by the Biden administration during the last few weeks of its term. The policy posited that DEI was an “integral” part of “the entire scientific process,” and pushed NIH’s chief scientist and top scientific integrity official to “promote agency efforts regarding diversity, equity and inclusion.” It also instituted agency-wide policy directives ordering supervisors at the NIH to “support” scientists and researchers who are “asexual” or “intersex,” while imploring NIH leadership to “confer with relevant offices” when additional DEI expertise is needed. In addition to the amended scientific integrity policy, the Biden administration also took other steps to infuse DEI into the scientific process throughout its term. This included compelling scientists seeking to work with the NIH to submit statements expressing their commitment to DEI, including when seeking certain grant funding for research projects. “The Biden administration weaponized NIH’s scientific integrity policy to inject harmful DEI and gender ideology into research,” said Health and Human Services Department spokesperson, Andrew Nixon. “Rescinding this [scientific integrity] policy will allow NIH to restore science to its golden standard and protect the integrity of science.” HHS EMPLOYEES OFFERED $25K AS ‘INCENTIVE TO VOLUNTARILY SEPARATE’ According to an HHS source, during the Biden administration, a member of NIH’s DEI office was placed on every search committee for scientists and leadership. The source also noted that under Biden, scientists who submitted work to the NIH’s “Board of Scientific Counselors,” which oversees agency research, were also required to include a statement pledging their commitment to DEI. The Biden administration also funded grants related to DEI, such as one for roughly $165,000 that was focused on “queering the curriculum” for family medicine doctors to guide them in their treatment of transgender patients. A similar project sought to use taxpayer funds from NIH to instruct nurses on the standards of care from the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH). MILLIONS SPENT BY BIDEN ON COVID ‘VACCINE HESITANCY’ CAMPAIGN SLASHED BY TRUMP NIH: REPORT WPATH’s standards of care for transgender patients, which support the use of puberty blockers, hormone therapy and gender-reassignment surgery for minors, have been rebuked globally. One controversial part of WPATH’s guidelines is the inclusion of “enuch” as a valid gender-identity. Several European countries, such as the U.K., Sweden and Finland, have taken steps to steer clear of the treatment modalities suggested by WPATH. TRUMP ADMIN PLANNING TO CONSOLIDATE HIV PROGRAMS, SLASHING ‘OVERHEAD’ AND DEI: OFFICIAL Under Biden, the NIH also brought DEI activist Ibram Kendi to speak with more than 1,200 staff members about “anti-racism.” In a recap of the 2022 speech, the NIH pointed out how Kendi “states unequivocally” that “policies are either racist or antiracist.” The Trump administration’s move to rescind the Biden-era scientific integrity policy follows other actions taken to extinguish DEI programs from the public and private sectors, calling such initiatives a civil rights violation. In addition to slashing DEI programs at the NIH, Trump has also moved to slim down its workforce. Shortly after he took office, the president implemented a funding cap for facilities and administrative fees associated with NIH research to help clear room for additional projects.
25 Indians awarded death sentence in UAE, 10150 lodged in foreign jails: Centre
The number of Indian nationals who have been awarded a death sentence in the UAE, but the judgement is yet to be implemented, stands at 25, the government informed Parliament on Thursday.
School choice activists warn parents about blue state’s homeschool bill with jail-time provision
From one blue-state parent to another, activists in California are warning Illinois families about a bill advancing through their state legislature that would create more regulations, and penalties, for homeschooling parents. It’s the latest high-profile battle dealing with school choice, a campaign issue President Donald Trump ran on. “Illinois, California, Colorado, they all compete with each other. They’re coming after homeschooling, just like they’ve been coming after public schools,” California parents rights activist Sonja Shaw said in a video posted to X on Wednesday. “They’re attacking families, stripping parental rights, and pushing their radical agendas while our kids are failing at reading, writing and math.” At issue is HB2827, the Homeschool Act, which would charge parents with a misdemeanor if they fail to register their kids in a “homeschool declaration form” to the nearest public school they would otherwise be attending. Failure to do so would be considered truancy, and parents could face up to 30 days in jail with fines. The bill passed a major hurdle passing out of the Democrat-dominated House education committee in a party-line vote on Wednesday, despite having upward of 50,000 witness slips in opposition and only 1,000 in support, including the Illinois State Board of Education. ILLINOIS PARENTS, LAWMAKERS SOUND ALARM OVER PROPOSED HOMESCHOOLING BILL: ‘DIRECT ASSAULT ON FAMILIES’ California parents opposed a similar bill that failed to make it out of committee in the state legislature in 2018, AB 2756, only after hearing three hours of testimony from parents and homeschoolers. Opponents say the Democrat-led bill would have mandated all homeschooling families in the state to adhere to involuntary home inspections, after the Turpin-family child abuse case. “This is calculated. This is how they do it. They do it in increments, slowly taking control away while people sit back thinking that their kids are safe and it doesn’t affect them,” said Shaw, who is a school board member in Chino and running for state superintendent of public instruction. “Every parent needs to be in this fight. If we don’t stand up now together, there will be nothing left to fight for our kids in their future. Please get involved. Please speak up. Please show up, because our children are worth this fight.” KAROLINE LEAVITT VOWS TRUMP WILL KEEP MALES OUT OF GIRLS LOCKER ROOMS AMID ILLINOIS SCHOOL CONTROVERSY Will Estrada, senior counsel for the Homeschool Legal Defense Association, told Fox News on Wednesday that the bill’s language was left “open-ended for unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats to be able to write different sections of regulations.” “If this bill is passed into law, it’s going to be expanded in future years to put even more restrictions on homeschool and private school families,” Estrada said after testifying at Wednesday’s hearing. “The record of homeschoolers shows that we do well academically, socially, emotionally and so why are we messing with them? That’s the question. This bill is a solution in search of a problem.” HHS’ CIVIL RIGHTS OFFICE FINDS MAINE IN VIOLATION OF TITLE IX FOR ALLOWING BIOLOGICAL MALES IN WOMEN’S SPORTS Democrats say the bill – which contains a portion that requires parents to hand over teaching materials if its suspected the child isn’t being educated properly – will strengthen oversight of homeschooling. Democratic state Rep. Terra Costa Howard introduced the bill following an investigative story by Pro Publica, which has a left-leaning bias according to the nonpartisan news rating company AllSides, entitled, “How Illinois’ Hands-Off Approach to Homeschooling Leaves Children at Risk.” The report included cases of abuse that went unnoticed because children were not in school. But opponents of the bill pushed back, saying in the hearing that there’s no correlation between homeschooled students being more at risk of abuse than those in the public school system. “I believe this bill will help protect abused and neglected children and leave in place the freedom of parents to decide how to best meet the educational needs of their children,” Tanner Lovett, an opponent of the bill, said Wednesday. The Illinois homeschool bill will now head to the state House of Representatives for a floor vote. If passed by the House and Senate, it would land on the desk of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat considered a potential 2028 presidential hopeful. The bill passed out of the committee as President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Thursday dismantling the federal Department of Education.
Dem senator on Schumer future: ‘Important’ to know ‘when it’s time to go’
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., faces potentially losing the confidence of his caucus after a controversial decision to advance the Republicans’ stopgap spending bill earlier this month and avoid a government shutdown. “Let me just say it’s important for people to know when it’s time to go,” Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., reportedly told constituents during a town hall on Wednesday. “We’re going to have conversations, I’m sure, in the foreseeable future, about all the Democratic leadership.” The senator had been asked if he would call for Schumer to step aside, which he did not commit to. SPEAKER JOHNSON SAYS GOP LOOKING AT ‘ALL AVAILABLE OPTIONS’ TO ADDRESS ‘ACTIVIST JUDGES’ OPPOSING TRUMP “I do think on the leadership question, it’s always better to examine whether folks are in the right place, and we’re certainly going to have that conversation,” he explained, per NPR. The comments come after Schumer faced swift backlash for his shutdown vote, during which he was in the minority of his caucus, most of whom opposed moving the stopgap spending measure forward. Despite claiming his caucus was unified just one day prior, Schumer revealed his decision to vote to advance the bill, to the dismay of many of his colleagues. “I believe allowing Donald Trump to take even much more power via a government shutdown is a far worse option,” he explained at the time. DEM SENATOR REFUSES TO ADDRESS RELATIONSHIP WITH FOUNDER OF SOROS-FUNDED ‘PROPAGANDA’ NEWS NETWORK House Democrats, nearly all of whom voted against the measure, slammed the move. Dozens of the lower chamber Democrats even signed last-minute letters to Schumer to urge him not to go forward with his vote, to no avail. In a striking statement, House Democratic leaders came out against Schumer’s decision, without mentioning him by name. During a press conference, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., refused to answer a question about whether he was confident in his New York colleague. “Next question,” he responded. WHO IS JAMES BOASBERG, THE US JUDGE AT THE CENTER OF TRUMP’S DEPORTATION EFFORTS? Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., also released a statement during the controversy, urging the Senate to listen to the female appropriators. The prominent Democrats appearing at odds with Schumer publicly only further intensified the scrutiny he faced afterward. Jeffries later clarified his feelings on Schumer, however. “Yes, I do,” he said when asked if he was confident in Schumer during a different press conference. According to the House Democratic leader, “we are all aligned on the fights that are in front of us.” Jeffries and Schumer had a “good conversation about the path forward, particularly as it relates to making sure we all speak with one voice,” he added. What was already considered an identity crisis for Democrats following the 2024 election has appeared to evolve into a crisis of leadership, with senators, such as Bennet, entertaining the idea of discussions about the caucus and its direction. FEDERAL JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO PAY ‘UNLAWFULLY’ RESTRICTED USAID FUNDS “I think that Leader Schumer has been very effective in a lot of battles, but we also need to—these are new times, and we need to all come together,” Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., told reporters directly after the shutdown votes. “And so, you know, second-guessing Leader Schumer out here isn’t going to accomplish the kind of unity that we’re going to need to be able to stand up to the president. So we’ll have that conversation inside caucus.”
Florida Dems stage town halls in GOP districts featuring ‘missing’ posters of their colleagues
Florida Democrats launched statewide town halls as part of a coordinated effort by the Democratic Party to host “People’s Town Halls” in all 50 states. Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried said the hundreds of bipartisan Floridians who are attending these town halls are frustrated but appreciative that “if Republicans aren’t going to show up – we are.” Fried told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview that leadership is critical during this moment of “constitutional crisis.” She urged both Democrat and Republican leaders to show up, listen and fight for their constituents in Washington, D.C. “[There] is a disconnect between what is happening in Washington, D.C., and the frustrations and the fears and the anger of the people on the ground. I’m always going to challenge my Democratic electeds to step up and do more. That is our job,” Fried said. “The people of this nation are expecting their elected officials to stand up right now, whether it is fighting in Washington, D.C., or it is coming home and giving answers to your constituents or finding ways to provide services to your constituents that may be cut by the federal level or even here in the state of Florida.” One by one, at a Clearwater town hall on Saturday, Pinellas County constituents took turns addressing a “missing” poster of Rep. Ana Paulina Luna, R-Fla., expressing discontent with President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Conservatives on social media slammed the “missing” posters as “nothing authentic or compelling.” DEM LEADER SWINGS THROUGH GOP-HELD DISTRICTS AFTER ‘CLOWN SHOW PROTESTS’ HALTED TOWN HALLS “I have never seen the national Democratic Party in such chaos and confusion. Whether it’s childish stunts on the floor of Congress or performance art with their fake town halls, there is nothing authentic or compelling about their message, their tactics, or their delivery,” Republican consultant Frank Luntz replied on X to photos from the event. Luntz compared the Democrats’ latest move to holding posters during Trump’s joint address to Congress and the coordinated effort by protest groups to disrupt Republican town halls. Others on social media called it “embarrassing.” Luna’s spokesperson said she has been available at “numerous events” and the Florida representative doesn’t “work for the leftist mob.” HEAR THE DEATH THREATS REPUBLICAN SENATOR RECEIVED ABOUT TRUMP “Congresswoman Luna is not scared of leftist carpetbaggers,” a spokesperson for Luna’s office told Fox News Digital in a statement. “Outside groups have been using robo-callers and non-constituent activists to scream profanities and sexist slurs at her office. Meanwhile, Tim Walz’s vaunted ‘town hall’ was closed to the public.” “The reality is that Congresswoman Luna is hard at work for the people of Florida’s 13th district, tackling issues from beach renourishment to preparations for hurricane season. Additionally, she is actively working with the Trump administration to fix FEMA and waive the 50% rule. She is being awarded a key to the county because of her efforts. Congresswoman Luna has been publicly available at numerous events where constituents can freely talk with her, regardless of who they voted for. She doesn’t work for the leftist mob and doesn’t answer to the fake, billionaire-funded “grassroots” groups that pay people to be their pawns,” the spokesperson added. “Obviously, they’re not missing,” Florida GOP Chairman Evan Power told Fox News Digital. “They’ve been in Washington voting. I felt the one in Miami was particularly tasteless when they put Mario Díaz-Balart on a missing poster. I mean, he buried his brother seven days before that. So I thought it was pretty tasteless that they did it that way.” Rep. Díaz-Balart represents Florida’s 26th Congressional District. He delivered the eulogy for his brother, former Rep. Lincoln Díaz-Balart, at a Memorial Mass at the Corpus Christi Catholic Church on Saturday, March 8. His photo appeared on a “missing” poster during a town hall in Miami-Dade County the following Saturday. Other “missing” posters included images of Reps. Carlos Giménez and María Elvira Salazar. Florida Democrats have planned about a dozen town halls since the statewide campaign launched last Friday. “While Florida Dems do townhalls, Florida Republicans win elections. Being present on the ground is what matters and that is why the Florida GOP has a historic 1.2 million voter registration advantage, two mind blowing Republican super majorities in the state legislature, and a full Republican cabinet. While Florida Dems talk, Florida Republicans walk the walk. It works for us!” Power told Fox News Digital in a statement. CHAOS ERUPTS AT GOP LAWMAKER’S TOWN HALL AFTER LEFT-WING GROUPS PROMOTE PROTESTS The Florida GOP Chair touted their November success and said Congressional Republicans are “doing their job” while Democrats are hosting “fake town halls.” “They’re not leaving Floridians because they know that these people were elected by wide margins, and they’re doing their job in Congress. Just because they’re not coming to do fake town halls does not mean they’re not doing their jobs,” Power said. Fried shut down the Republican critics who called the town hall “stunts.” “These aren’t stunts,” she said. “These are people with real issues that have real concerns. The fact that the Republican Party of Florida is saying that their voices don’t matter and want to play partisan politics – we invited them too. This is something where the community has to come together, and if the Republicans that are elected into office won’t listen to their constituents and understand the impact that their complacency of these moments are having on their everyday lives, then they don’t deserve to be in office.” Fried told Fox News Digital “shame on” Republicans for not returning home to have the “uncomfortable” conversations. “The fact that they’re not coming back to listen to those individuals and the people that put them into office, shame on them,” Fried said. “Even if it’s going to be uncomfortable, that’s okay. You get through these moments, and you make a better society when you’re able to talk to your constituents and there’s a partnership between the electeds and the people
SCOOP: Bill preventing activist judges from blocking Trump’s agenda backed by White House
FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump has shown interest in a House GOP bill that would block federal judges from issuing nationwide injunctions, two sources familiar with discussions told Fox News Digital. Top White House aides communicated to senior Capitol Hill staff this week that “the president wants this,” the sources said. They said the White House felt that time was of the essence in the matter and that Trump wanted Congress to move swiftly. It comes after various U.S. district court judges issued more than a dozen nationwide orders at least temporarily blocking Trump’s executive orders. The bill by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., if it passed Congress and was signed into law, would bar such judges in most cases from blocking Trump policies on a national scale. INJUNCTION LIFTED ON TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS SLASHING FEDERAL DEI SUPPORT Issa’s office did not directly confirm whether or not the exchange occurred but told Fox News Digital, “President Trump knows we need a national solution to this major malfunction in the federal judiciary, and we think we have the momentum to get this done.” A White House official told Fox News Digital they would not get ahead of the president on legislative matters. But the idea has appeared to gain traction in the upper levels of the White House. Trump Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller complained on X twice on Thursday about federal district judges having the ability to affect policies for the entire country, though he did not mention Issa’s bill specifically. “It takes 5 Supreme Court justices to issue a ruling that affects the whole nation. Yet lone District Court judges assume the authority to unilaterally dictate the policies of the entire executive branch of government,” Miller posted. TRUMP ASKS SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW BAN ON BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP He posted again later, “Under what theory of the constitution does a single Marxist judge in San Francisco have the same executive power as the Commander-in-Chief elected by the whole nation to lead the executive branch? No such theory exists. It is merely naked judicial tyranny.” Issa’s legislation reads, “Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no United States district court shall issue any order providing for injunctive relief, except in the case of such an order that is applicable only to limit the actions of a party to the case before such district court with respect to the party seeking injunctive relief from such district court.” The bill advanced through the House Judiciary Committee earlier this month. Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told CNN on Wednesday, “We think that’s good. We passed it through the committee. We’ll try to look to pass it on the House floor and move it through the process.” Jordan told Fox News Digital last month he thought Issa’s bill “makes sense” and the committee would “try to move fairly quick on that bill.” Fox News Digital reached out to the House Judiciary Committee for comment on Trump’s backing of Issa’s bill but did not hear back by press time. But it comes amid some disagreements among congressional Republicans about how to heed Trump’s call to deal with “activist” judges. Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, recently introduced a resolution to impeach U.S. District Judge James Boasberg after he ordered a 14-day emergency stop to Trump’s plans to deport suspected Tren De Aragua gang members to El Salvador. Gill argued that Boasberg abused his power in doing so, and told Fox News Digital this week that he hoped the resolution would go through the regular committee process – something Jordan seemed open to. TRUMP SCORES BIG LEGAL WIN AGAINST PULITZER PRIZE BOARD MEMBERS AS LAWSUIT MOVES TO DISCOVERY Jordan told multiple outlets he would potentially hold hearings on Gill’s resolution, which is a traditional step in the impeachment inquiry process. Trump posted on Truth Social earlier this week that he wanted Boasberg impeached as well. But multiple sources told Fox News Digital that House GOP leaders are more wary of the impeachment route, given the virtual guarantee that such a move would not get the necessary Democrats to pass the Senate. “It’s another intense whipping process for something that won’t move at all in the Senate,” one senior House GOP aide said. “I think the White House is trying to find something easier to do.” Speaker Mike Johnson’s office told Fox News Digital that he was looking at all available options when reached for comment on House Republicans’ path forward on Thursday morning. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “Activist judges with political agendas pose a significant threat to the rule of law, equal justice, and the separation of powers. The Speaker looks forward to working with the Judiciary Committee as they review all available options under the Constitution to address this urgent matter,” a spokesperson for Johnson, R-La., said. Fox News Digital also reached out to the Senate Judiciary Committee on whether it would take up the legislation. Fox News Digital’s Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report
‘Lunatic’: Trump’s long history of abusing judges who oppose him
United States President Donald Trump has doubled down on his criticism of a federal judge, calling him “radical left” for blocking the deportation of Venezuelan migrants, as his administration ramps up rhetoric against the courts. Trump on Tuesday called for the impeachment of Judge James Boasberg, accusing him of putting the US at risk. “We don’t want vicious, violent, and demented criminals, many of them deranged murderers, in our country,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Tuesday. Boasberg, who serves in the federal district court in Washington, DC, has come under attack since he issued an order to block deportation flights on Saturday. The Trump administration has been accused of ignoring Boasberg’s orders by sending several planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador prisons notorious for rights abuses. Trump has invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, an obscure law meant to target nationals from an enemy nation during wartime. The courts have blocked several of Trump’s executive orders amid little resistance from the Republican-controlled Congress, attracting the wrath of the officials. Advertisement Attorney General Pam Bondi accused the judge of “meddling in our government” while White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt believes judges are acting as “judicial activists”. The US president on his part called Boasberg a “radical left lunatic” “appointed by [former president] Barack Hussein Obama”. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has criticised calls to impeach Judge Boasberg, but that has not stopped Trump from attacking the judge. The US president lashed out at Roberts as well, suggesting the Supreme Court itself was compromised by political bias. The latest rhetoric is just one in a series of attacks Trump has launched against judges and courts who challenge his policies or hold him accountable in cases brought against him. Why have Trump and officials from his administration clashed with the judiciary? There’s a troubling pattern of Trump attacking judges and courts in the past. Let’s take a look. A pattern of attacks? Trump’s contempt for the courts predates his presidency but reached new levels during his time in office. Usually, if a ruling went against him, the judge was deemed by Trump biased, incompetent, or part of a left-wing conspiracy. One of the earliest examples came in 2016 when Trump, then a presidential candidate, attacked US District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who was overseeing fraud lawsuits against his now-defunct Trump University. Trump suggested Curiel was unfit to preside over the case because of his Mexican heritage, calling him a “hater” and implying he could not be fair due to Trump’s hardline stance on immigration. The attack drew widespread condemnation. Advertisement Once in the White House, Trump continued to fight the judiciary. In 2017, when Judge James Robart issued a temporary block on his travel ban targeting Muslim-majority countries, Trump labelled him a “so-called judge” and accused him of endangering national security. In 2018, Trump dubbed Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Jon Tigar “an Obama judge” after he ruled that an immigrant could claim asylum regardless of where she entered the country. The same year, Trump attacked the judiciary after an appeals court in California blocked his administration from deporting young immigrants shielded under an Obama-era programme. Trump did not hesitate to also target the Supreme Court when it ruled against him. He was incensed when the court rejected his attempts to overturn the 2020 election results. Trump continues to believe that his 2020 presidential election was stolen. In particular, he turned against Chief Justice Roberts, calling him “disgraceful” and “a disappointment”. Did his attacks against the judiciary go up after the end of his first term? As Trump’s legal troubles mounted after his presidency ended in 2020, his attacks on judges became even more personal. Facing multiple indictments ranging from election interference to business fraud, Trump often took to social media to condemn judges overseeing his cases. In his New York civil fraud case, where he was found liable for boosting his net worth, Trump called Judge Arthur Engoron “unhinged” and a “Trump-hating, radical left, Democrat operative”. He mocked his law clerk on social media, saying he was “politically biased and corrupt”, prompting a gag order. Advertisement Despite the restriction, Trump did not hold back. In his federal election interference case, presided over by Judge Tanya Chutkan, Trump labelled her “highly partisan”, “very biased and unfair”, and suggested she was out to get him. His verbal assaults led prosecutors to argue that his rhetoric was endangering the judicial process and potentially inciting threats against judges and court staff. Chutkan had warned Trump against making any “inflammatory statements” before the first hearing. “Your client’s defence is supposed to happen in this courtroom, not on the internet,” Chutkan told Trump’s lawyers, adding that the more anyone made “inflammatory” statements about the case, the greater her urgency would be to quickly move the case to trial. Trump also attacked liberal Supreme Court justices, particularly Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In 2020, Trump demanded that both judges “recuse” themselves from cases involving him, accusing them of bias, particularly after Sotomayor criticised the Trump administration’s frequent appeals to the top court to intervene in lower-court decisions. Trump took to Twitter, which later became X, calling remarks by Sotomayor “highly inappropriate”. His animosity towards Justice Ginsburg was even more pronounced. Before her passing in 2020, Ginsburg had publicly criticised Trump during his 2016 campaign, calling him a “faker” and expressing concern over his presidency. Trump fired back, calling her a “disgrace” to the court and demanding she resign. After her death, he faced backlash for quickly nominating a conservative replacement, Amy Coney Barrett. Advertisement In 2020, Trump attacked Judge Amy Berman Jackson over the conviction of his long-term aide Roger Stone in a witness tempering case. He said Stone’s jury was “tainted’ with anti-Trump bias. The case symbolised political meddling in high-profile cases as Trump used social media to question the judiciary’s fairness. Stone was pardoned in December 2020 at the end of Trump’s first term. Trump’s