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Constitutional crisis: The Trump administration is going out of its way to annoy Chief Justice John Roberts. Why?

Over the past five days, the Trump administration has put on a master class in how to piss off Chief Justice John Roberts. Its behavior in the Alien Enemies Act case seems designed to rankle the chief in every conceivable way: Rather than win the case on the merits, the administration has launched a multilevel assault on the presiding judge, James Boasberg. It isn’t just that Donald Trump, along with his co-President Elon Musk, has called for Boasberg’s impeachment—though that escalation did prompt Roberts to issue a rare rejoinder. It’s that the Justice Department, too, has gotten in on the action, insulting Boasberg in insolent filings that openly question his integrity, neutrality, and competence. In short, the administration is deliberately staking this out as a battle between the executive branch and the judicial branch.

There is surely some considered tactic at play here. The tactic simply appears not to be “Winning John Roberts’ vote.” Rather, the Trump administration seems eager to prevail in the court of public opinion, then leverage that victory to make the courts fall in line—the same play it’s running on Congress. The public-facing side of this strategy is obvious enough. First, the administration raced to deport Venezuelan migrants whom it accused, without evidence, of membership in the Tren de Aragua gang.