President Donald Trump isn’t a fan of judges who rule against him. During his first term, he famously attacked Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who sentenced his ally and adviser Roger Stone, by saying she was “totally biased” and had “hatred” for both Trump and Stone.

Now, Trump has only ratcheted up the attacks on judges. This feud reached a new high-water mark after US District Court Judge James Boasberg ordered the Trump administration to stop deporting certain Venezuelan immigrants. Boasberg also pressed the administration on the timing of flights from the US to El Salvador, where the immigrants were moved to a mega-prison.

In response, Trump called Boasberg a “Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator.” In concert, Attorney General Pam Bondi said the judge had “no right” to be asking about the flights. Similar attack lines have been used by an array of Trump administration officials and allies.

For more on Trump’s grudge with judges, Today, Explained’s co-host Sean Rameswaram spoke with Kate Shaw. She’s a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School, and co-host of the legal podcast Strict Scrutiny.

Click the link below to hear the whole conversation. The following is a transcript edited for length and clarity.

Kate, what is going on with Trump and the judges?

Trump has fared remarkably poorly in litigation in the last two months. He really is on an impressive losing streak. He’s zero for three in the courts of appeals in trying to defend the constitutionality of his birthright citizenship executive order. He has been losing in cases challenging various aspects of Elon Musk’s role in government and the activities of DOGE. In the only two cases to reach the Supreme Court so far, both very early-stage procedural matters, he lost both of them.

He’s notched a couple of wins in the lower courts, but mostly on procedural issues. So, he’s........

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