Chief justice rebukes Trump for call to impeach judge hearing deportation case

John Roberts calls US president's demand over temporary restraining order halting deportations not appropriate'

John Roberts, the chief justice of the US supreme court, delivered a rare rebuke on Tuesday of Donald Trump after the US president demanded the impeachment of a federal judge who had issued an adverse ruling against the administration blocking the deportation of hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang members.

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 statement. The normal appellate process exists for that purpose."