United States President Donald Trump has called for the impeachment of a judge who ordered his administration to halt deportation.

Trump made his stance known in a Truth Social post on Tuesday.

The President was apparently referring to U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg, who recently sought to block deportation flights to El Salvador.

He described the judge as a ‘radical left lunatic’ who, according to him, wants to stand against the wishes of the Americans.

“This radical left lunatic of a judge, a troublemaker and agitator who was sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, was not elected president—he didn’t win the popular vote (by a lot!), he didn’t win all seven swing states, he didn’t win 2,750 to 525 counties — HE DIDN’T WIN ANYTHING! I WON FOR MANY REASONS, IN AN OVERWHELMING MANDATE, BUT FIGHTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION MAY HAVE BEEN THE NUMBER ONE REASON FOR THIS HISTORIC VICTORY,” Trump declared in the post.

“I’m just doing what the VOTERS wanted me to do. This judge, like many of the crooked judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!! WE DON’T WANT VICIOUS, VIOLENT, AND DEMENTED CRIMINALS, MANY OF THEM DERANGED MURDERERS, IN OUR COUNTRY. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!” the President added.

Earlier on Monday, Judge Boasberg had frowned at Trump and his administration’s legal defence for deporting immigrants to El Salvador.

The Justice Department took the unusual step of asking a federal appeals court to remove Boasberg from the case altogether. The appeals court did not immediately act on that request.

The DAILY POST reports that at the heart of the issue is Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 statute intended to bolster the President’s ability to deport foreign nationals from countries with which the United States is at war.

Consequently, Trump’s administration issued a proclamation labelling Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan criminal organisation, as sufficiently linked to the Venezuelan government to trigger those wartime powers.

Trump demands impeachment of Judge Boasberg in deportation legal battle