Trump-Appointed Judge Rips Colleagues For Subverting President’s Gangbanger Deportations: ‘Robed Crusaders’

A federal judge tore into his colleagues for blocking President Donald Trump’s use of a wartime authority to arrest and deport Venezuelan gangbangers in a scathing dissent.

A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 was not intended to be used on crime syndicates such as the Venezuelan-based Tren de Aragua gang, according to court documents. Two judges on the panel — one appointed by President George W. Bush and another by President Joe Biden — stated that Trump’s allegations about Tren de Aragua did not meet the scale of national conflict that Congress intended for the law.

However, Judge Andrew Oldham, the third judge on the panel, “emphatically” disagreed and issued a scathing rebuke of the majority opinion’s findings.

“The majority’s approach to this case is not only unprecedented — it is contrary to more than 200 years of precedent,” wrote Oldham, a Trump appointee, in a dissenting opinion.

“It reflects a view of the Judicial power that is not only muscular — it is herculean,” Oldham continued. “And it reflects a view of the Executive power that is not only diminutive — it is made subservient to the foreign-policy and public-safety hunches of every federal district judge in the country.”

The White House, which praised, Oldham’s dissent, indicated it would take the fight to a higher court.

“The authority to conduct national security operations in defense of the United States and to remove terrorists from the United States rests solely with the President,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson stated to the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation.