While America Honored Fallen Heroes, Trump Spent Memorial Day Weekend Attacking Judges, Defying Court Orders
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May 28, 2025
PRESS CONTACT
WASHINGTON — While Americans spent Memorial Day weekend honoring the troops who gave their lives to protect our democracy, the Trump administration demonstrated its complete disregard for our nation’s commitment to the rule of law. His continued attacks on federal judges and brazen violations of court orders are an affront to the fallen heroes he so cynically invokes.
In an all-caps Memorial Day message on Truth Social, Trump called federal judges “MONSTERS” who want America “to go to hell,” accusing them of suffering from “an ideology that is sick” and being “USA hating judges.”
Trump’s rhetoric was matched by action. That same weekend, federal Judge Brian Murphy issued a scathing rebuke of the Trump administration for violating his court orders by rushing seven deportations to South Sudan without due process – pleading for “reason to get the better of rhetoric” as Trump and aide Stephen Miller have repeatedly launched personal attacks against him.
Meanwhile, new reporting revealed how Trump weaponizes his power for personal gain: he pardoned a tax cheat just weeks after the man’s mother paid $1 million for access to the President at Mar-a-Lago.
These latest incidents are part of a broader pattern documented by Demand Justice’s “Justice Under Siege” campaign, which exposes Trump’s repeated defiance of lawful court orders, systematic attacks on judicial independence, and exploitation of his office against the rule of law.
For more information about the “Justice Under Siege” campaign, visit demandjustice.org.
Read more on the Trump administration’s actions from this weekend:
Newsweek: Donald Trump Attacks Judges in All-Caps Memorial Day Message: ‘MONSTERS’
President Donald Trump bashed federal judges as “monsters” who want the United States “to go to hell” in an all-caps Memorial Day message published on Truth Social.
In an attack focused on illegal immigration, the president accused U.S. judges suffering from “an ideology that is sick” of having been “on a mission to keep murderers, drug dealers, rapists, gang members, and released prisoners from all over the world” in the country over the last four years. […]
Writing on Truth Social, Trump wished a “happy Memorial Day to all,” including the “scum that spent the last four years trying to destroy our country through warped radical Left minds, who allowed 21,000,000 people to illegally enter our country, many of them being criminals and the mentally insane, through an open border.”
He added that U.S. judges were “on a mission to keep murderers, drug dealers, rapists, gang members, and released prisoners from all over the world, in our country so they can rob, murder, and rape again—all protected by these USA hating judges who suffer from an ideology that is sick, and very dangerous for our country.”
POLITICO: Judge Pleads With Trump Administration For Reason Over Rhetoric In Deportation Case
A federal judge said the Trump administration is falsely blaming him for a crisis of its own making: the rushed deportation of seven men to South Sudan in violation of court orders and constitutional due process.
U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy said Monday the hurried deportations were an overt violation of orders he put in place weeks ago, which required the administration to provide “meaningful” notice before deporting people to countries where they could face torture or death. Even after the violation, Murphy said he exercised restraint by not forcing the administration to bring the seven convicted violent criminals back to the United States. […]
“It continues to be the court’s hope that reason can get the better of rhetoric,” Murphy wrote in his withering Monday night order rejecting the Trump administration’s demand that he reconsider or delay the effect of his ruling. “The orders put in place here are sensible and conservative.”
It’s Murphy’s latest salvo after President Donald Trump and his top allies attempted to turn the judge into a poster child for their campaign of hostility toward judges who rule against their immigration priorities. Trump has directly targeted Murphy in social media posts, while senior Trump aide Stephen Miller has derided him as a “local city judge” from Boston and claimed Murphy is putting Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers at risk by forcing them to live full-time alongside the detainees bound for South Sudan.
The New York Times: Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner
Mr. Walczak, a former nursing home executive who had pleaded guilty to tax crimes days after the 2024 election, submitted a pardon application to President Trump around Inauguration Day. The application focused not solely on Mr. Walczak’s offenses but also on the political activity of his mother, Elizabeth Fago.
Ms. Fago had raised millions of dollars for Mr. Trump’s campaigns and those of other Republicans, the application said. […]
Then, Ms. Fago was invited to a $1-million-per-person fund-raising dinner last month that promised face-to-face access to Mr. Trump at his private Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla.
Less than three weeks after she attended the dinner, Mr. Trump signed a full and unconditional pardon.
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