トランプ氏、国外追放差し止めをめぐり最高裁に圧力

【ワシントンＡＦＰ＝時事】米国内で拘束されていたギャング構成員とされるベネズエラ人２００人超をエルサルバドルの刑務所へ送還した措置をめぐり、トランプ政権が連邦判事の国外追放差し止め命令を無視した疑いが浮上している。ドナルド・トランプ米大統領は２０日、裁判所が自身の政策を阻止しないよう、最高裁に介入を求める投稿をＳＮＳに掲載した。（写真はドナルド・トランプ米大統領）
　連邦地裁のジェームズ・ボースバーグ判事は、ホワイトハウスが自身の差し止め命令を意図的に無視したと指摘。トランプ政権下の司法省に対し、ベネズエラ移民の送還を決行した理由について、２５日までに説明するよう厳しく命じた。送還された移民の中には「犯罪を犯していない」「タトゥーを理由に標的にされた」と訴える者もいた。
　トランプ氏は、歴代の大統領では考えられないほど強い口調で、送還差し止めの司法判断を批判し、最高裁の介入を要求した。
　自身のＳＮＳ「トゥルース・ソーシャル」に投稿したメッセージで、トランプ氏はジョン・ロバーツ最高裁長官に向けて、「われわれの目標は米国を再び偉大にすることだ。過激で偏向的な判事たちが正義の妨げになることを許してはならない」と主張。
　さらに、全て大文字で「全国的な差し止め命令を今すぐ止めろ、手遅れになる前に！」と強調し、「ロバーツ長官と米連邦最高裁が、この有害かつ前例のない事態を即刻是正しなければ、わが国は非常に深刻な問題に直面する！」と続けた。
　共和党のジョージ・Ｗ・ブッシュ元大統領によって指名されたロバーツ長官は、前日にボースバーグ判事の弾劾を求めたトランプ氏の発言に対し、最高裁長官として異例の反論を行った。
　ロバーツ長官は簡潔な声明を発表し、「２００年以上にわたり、判決に対する意見の相違に弾劾で応じるのは適切ではないことが確立されている」と指摘。「こうした異議申し立てには、通常の控訴審制度が存在する」と述べた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2025/03/21-17:40）

US President Donald Trump demanded Thursday that courts stop blocking his agenda, edging closer to a constitutional showdown after a judge suggested the administration had ignored an order to block summary deportations.
A federal judge, in a strongly worded order, gave the Justice Department until Tuesday to explain why it went ahead with flights to El Salvador of prison-bound Venezuelan migrants, some of whose representatives say they had committed no crime and were targeted only for their tattoos.
Trump, in a scathing attack on the judiciary that would have been unthinkable coming from most presidents, demanded that the Supreme Court intervene.
It is our goal to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and such a high aspiration can never be done if Radical and Highly Partisan Judges are allowed to stand in the way of JUSTICE, Trump wrote in a post on his online platform Truth Social aimed at Chief Justice John Roberts.
STOP NATIONWIDE INJUNCTIONS NOW, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, Trump wrote in all capital letters.
If Justice Roberts and the United States Supreme Court do not fix this toxic and unprecedented situation IMMEDIATELY, our Country is in very serious trouble!
Roberts, who was nominated by Republican George W. Bush, a day earlier issued a rare rebuke by the country's top justice to remarks of the president after Trump called for the impeachment of the judge who ruled on the deportation case.
For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision, Roberts said in a brief statement.
The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.
On Saturday, James Boasberg, the chief judge of the US District Court in Washington, issued an emergency order against the deportation of Venezuelans as they sought legal recourse.
He said that two flights already in the air must turn around. El Salvador's President Nayyib Bukele, who has offered to take in prisoners on the cheap in Latin America's largest prison, responded on social media: Oopsie... Too late.
- 'Woefully insufficient' -
In a new order on Thursday, Boasberg said an acting field office director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency had explained that the Trump administration was considering justifying its actions by saying the issue was a matter of state secrets.
This is woefully insufficient, Boasberg wrote, saying that the Government again evaded its obligations.
He said that a regional official in charge of immigration enforcement was not in a position to attest to cabinet-level arguments against a federal court.
He gave the Trump administration until Tuesday to explain why it did not violate his restraining order.
Officials said that 237 Venezuelans were flown to El Salvador, some of them as Trump invoked the rarely used 1798 Alien Enemies Act to remove alleged members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan criminal gang.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday he had confidence that the deported Venezuelans were gang members but that, even if not, they were illegally in the United States.
A lawyer for one of the men, Jerce Reyes Barrios, said that he was a professional soccer player in Venezuela with no criminal record who applied through legal channels for asylum in the United States after demonstrating against Nicolas Maduro, the leftist president whose legitimacy is rejected by Washington and the opposition.
The lawyer, Linette Tobin, said that US authorities accused him of gang membership based on a tattoo that in fact was associated with his fandom for Real Madrid.
Representative Jamie Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said that Trump was refusing to accept that we are still a nation of laws and not royal edicts.
Gregg Nunziata, a former Senate aide to Rubio who now heads to Society for the Rule of Law, called Trump's post on the judiciary a knife pointed at the heart of our Constitution and worthy of impeachment on its own.