WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pam Bondi once again attacked members of the judiciary in a Fox News interview Sunday, criticizing federal judges who have struck down or paused portions of President Donald Trump’s agenda and saying the Supreme Court will ultimately hear the court battle over the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act.
“The Supreme Court will get involved,” Bondi said on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” “This is an out of control judge, a federal judge, trying to control our entire foreign policy, and he cannot do it.”
Trump administration officials and the president himself have repeatedly criticized judges who have ruled against the administration. Trump has called for the impeachment of U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who is presiding over the case involving the administration’s use of the rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act to deport what officials claim are gang members to El Salvador.
In a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump doubled down on his attacks against Boasberg, writing that he is a “Constitutional disaster.”
Bondi echoed Trump on Sunday, saying, “These judges are out of control.”
The judges she criticized were Boasberg; U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is presiding over a case involving the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt to cancel up to $20 billion in grants for climate initiatives; U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, who blocked Trump’s ban on transgender people enlisting or serving in the military; and U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang, who ruled that the Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development “likely violated the United States Constitution in multiple ways.”
“We are going to fight back, and we are going to win, and the Supreme Court will be ready to hear these cases again,” she said. “These are federal district judges who are trying to control our nation’s agenda.”
The Trump administration’s attacks on the judiciary come as courts across the country consider legal challenges to a number of the White House’s initiatives.
Trump’s call to impeach Boasberg prompted an unusual rebuke from Chief Justice John Roberts, who said “it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision.”
“The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose,” he added.
Bondi defended the Alien Enemies Act deportations as “basic public safety,” painting the deportees as “committing the most violent crimes you can imagine.”
It is unclear whether those who were deported to El Salvador were given U.S. court hearings or immigration hearings.
Trump border czar Tom Homan said in an interview on ABC News’ “This Week” that “a lot of gang members don’t have criminal histories.”
“Just because someone hasn’t been arrested and charged with a crime yet doesn’t mean they’re a member of a gang,” Homan said.
Bondi also addressed Tesla arson attacks in the Fox News interview, saying that Molotov cocktails that were allegedly used to set fire to Teslas and charging stations “could be a weapon of mass destruction.”
Three people are facing charges for allegedly attacking Tesla properties. Bondi on Sunday again referred to the acts as “domestic terrorism.”
Dareh Gregorian contributed.
