Trump’s war on the law continues.

After attacking judges and repeatedly sidestepping their orders, the Trump administration has accused a federal judge in Washington of escalating tensions between the judicial and executive branches by seeking to hold the White House accountable for its courtroom behavior.

Because he thinks he’s a monarch and the law is subservient to him. He’s the prez but he doesn’t understand the separation of powers.

The accusation against the judge, James E. Boasberg, came in a court filing early Friday morning by the Justice Department. In it, department lawyers asked the federal appeals court that sits over Judge Boasberg to prevent him from opening an expansive contempt inquiry into whether the White House violated an order he issued in March to stop flights of Venezuelan migrants from being sent to El Salvador under the authority of a powerful wartime statute.

Wawawa let us do whatever we want, you’re just judges and we have the golden throne.

Much of the filing to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia read like a normal legal brief, laying out the government’s challenge to a judicial order it did not like. But in its opening line, department lawyers made clear that they believed Judge Boasberg’s recent threat to open criminal contempt proceedings in the deportation case represented another salvo in an increasingly bitter battle between the White House and the courts.

“‘Occasions for constitutional confrontation between the two branches should be avoided whenever possible,’” the department lawyers wrote, failing to mention their own role in fostering such confrontations. “The district court’s criminal contempt order instead escalates the constitutional stakes by infringing core executive prerogatives.”

Or, to put it another way, the administration’s refusal to comply with the judicial order escalates the constitutional stakes by infringing core judicial prerogatives.

All of this and more prompted a conservative Republican jurist, writing for a federal appeals court that reviews Judge Xinis, to scold the Trump administration on Thursday for repeatedly taking an aggressive and recalcitrant approach to the courts and to court orders.

“The respect that courts must accord the executive must be reciprocated by the executive’s respect for the courts,” the appellate judge, J. Harvie Wilkinson III, wrote. “Too often today this has not been the case, as calls for impeachment of judges for decisions the executive disfavors and exhortations to disregard court orders sadly illustrate.”

That’s Trumpism for you. Just ignore any orders you don’t like and accuse everyone else of disrespect and disobedience. He considers himself a dictator and that’s all there is to it – the rules might as well not exist.