US president, Donald Trump, has hit out at the judiciary as he seeks to exercise unprecedented powers in deporting migrants.
On Saturday, the Supreme Court gave an order to temporarily block Trump’s use of an obscure law to deport Venezuelan migrants without due process.
The American president then took to his Truth Social platform on Sunday to hit out at “weak and ineffective judges”.
Trump claimed that the “sinister attack on our nation” will never be forgotten.
In a bizarre Easter message, he wrote: “Happy Easter also to the WEAK and INEFFECTIVE Judges and Law Enforcement Officials who are allowing this sinister attack on our Nation to continue, an attack so violent that it will never be forgotten!”
One of two conservative high-court justices to vote against the halt, Samuel Alito, called the emergency ruling by the court’s majority “legally questionable.”
“Literally in the middle of the night, the Court issued unprecedented and legally questionable relief… without hearing from the opposing party,” Alito wrote in his dissent.
The court’s order at least temporarily halted what rights groups warned were imminent deportations of Venezuelan migrants being held in Texas, who have been accused of being gang members.
“We’re getting closer and closer to a constitutional crisis,” Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar told CNN.
“Donald Trump is trying to pull us down into the sewer of a crisis.”