Joyce Vance on Trump's plan...evoscerate the lower courts w/ the support of 6 MAGAt SCOTUS justices...unlimited power!

[Miles Archer]

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/when-they-bukele-the-courts

When they Bukele the Courts
Joyce Vance
Oct 11, 2025

When Kilmar Abrego Garcia was first deported to El Salvador and his lawyers went to court, arguing an immigration judge had previously prohibited it, Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, commented, “He’s a citizen of El Salvador. So it’s very arrogant, even for American media, to suggest that we would even tell El Salvador how to handle their own citizens.” But Miller seems to lack the same compunction about letting Nayib Bukele, the President of El Salvador. tell President Trump, and in fact, our entire country, how we should run our courts.

In February of this year, Bukele responded to a tweet from Elon Musk, who posted, “The only way to restore rule of the people in America is to impeach judges. No one is above the law, including judges,” referencing what Bukele had done in El Salvador. Bukele tweeted, “If you don’t impeach the corrupt judges, you CANNOT fix the country. They will form a cartel (a judicial dictatorship) and block all reforms, protecting the systemic corruption that put them in their seats.”

Bukele’s tweet resurfaced earlier this month, when Elon Musk retweeted a right-wing media personality, Eric Daughterty, who suggested, “We need to Bukele our court system.”

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And Trump has appeared to be open to the following Bukele’s lead. In March, Trump threatened federal judge Jeb Boasberg with impeachment when he didn’t like his ruling in a deportation case. “Many people have called for his impeachment, the impeachment of this judge. I don’t know who the judge is, but he’s radical left,” Trump said on Fox News. “He was Obama-appointed, and he actually said we shouldn’t be able to take criminals, killers, murderers, horrible, the worst people, gang members, gang leaders, that we shouldn’t be allowed to take them out of our country.” He continued, “Well, that’s a presidential job that’s not for a local judge to be making that determination.” Trump was echoing others in his administration who had encouraged impeachment proceedings against Judge Boasberg.