Trump slams 'weak, ineffective' judges as row over deportation of migrants deepens

The clash over President Don-ald Trump's bid to exercise un-precedented powers in deporting migrants deepened on Sunday as he again bashed the judiciary, while a top Democrat warned the country was "closer and closer" to a constitutional crisis.

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The latest events followed a dramatic intervention by the Supreme Court in the pre-dawn hours of Saturday to temporarily block Trump's use of an obscure law to deport Venezuelan mi-grants without due process.

Trump lashed out Sunday on his Truth Social platform, not specifically naming the judges, but slamming the "WEAK and INEFFECTIVE Judges and Law Enforcement Officials who are allowing this sinister attack on our Nation to continue, an attack so violent that it will never be for-gotten!" Samuel Alito, one of two conservative high court justices to vote against the halt, called the emergency ruling by the court a "majority legally questionable."

"Literally in the middle of the night, the Court issued unprece-dented and legally questionable relief... without hearing from the opposing party," Alito wrote in his dissent.