Donald Trump's critics celebrated over the weekend when a judge who the president himself had appointed issued him a major legal loss. MAGA supporters, on the other hand, called for the jurist to be impeached.
Raw Story reported on the "bombshell ruling," in which Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, ruled that Trump's National Guard call-up to Portland was based on false claims about unrest in the liberal city. That ruling also made waves with Trump critics online.
But supporters of the president spoke out, too, in many cases melting down over the perceived betrayal.
Top Trump adviser Stephen Miller said the ruling amounts to "legal insurrection."
"The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide)," Miller wrote. "This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself."
Conservative Will Chamberlain called the ruling an "unacceptable intrusion on core executive branch authority."
"We’ve all seen what has happened in Portland - OBVIOUSLY the National Guard is required to protect federal personnel because the Portland Police won’t," he wrote late on Saturday. "Judge Immergut must be impeached."
Conservative author Hans Mahncke had a problem with the judge being almost universally accepted by lawmakers.
"The fact that Immergut sailed through committee on a 20–2 vote was a massive red flag," according to Mahncke.
MAGA media personality Mark R. Levin, who is frequently cited by the president, said, "A federal judge just literally seized from the president his fundamental power to execute and enforce our immigration laws!"
"Simultaneous with violent street lawlessness is the judicial tyranny that seeks to uphold it — a direct and outrageous usurpation of our Constitution and separation of powers," he wrote Sunday.
