Speaking during her press conference on Wednesday, March 19, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt minced no words when sounding off on the “activist” overreach of U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg, arguing that the judge was operating as a “Democrat activist” as shown by both his actions and his wife’s donation history.
As background, it was Judge Boasberg who, the weekend before Leavitt’s response, attempted to block the Trump Administration’s new deportation strategy, which relies on the John Adams Administration-era Alien Enemies Act. Despite the Supreme Court having found in 1948 that the act’s implementation is the exclusive purview of the executive, Judge Boasberg tried stopping Trump from deporting gang members under it.
It was about that situation that Leavitt was speaking when she hammered the judge as a political activist and exposed his wife’s role in the ridiculous, obviously politics-rooted decisions that he has made in an attempt to block President Trump from deporting violent, illegal immigrant gangsters.
Speaking about what President Trump was trying to do, and thus Judge Boasberg was trying to stop, Leavitt said, “I would just like to point out that the judge in this case is essentially trying to say that the president doesn’t have the executive authority to deport foreign terrorists from our American soil.” She continued, “That is an egregious abuse of the bench.”
Building on that, Leavitt argued that Judge Boasberg totally lacks the authority to do what he is doing, saying, “This judge does not have that authority. It is the opinion of this White House and of this administration, and that’s why we’re fighting this in court. And it’s very, very clear that this is an activist judge who is trying to usurp the president’s authority.”
She then slammed the judge, who was made a judge by President George W Bush but appointed to his current position by former President Obama, as a “Democrat activist,” saying, “Under the Alien Enemies Act, the president has this power, and that’s why this deportation campaign has continued. And this judge, Judge Boasberg, is a Democrat activist. He was appointed by Barack Obama.”
Adding to that, Leavitt exposed Judge Boasberg’s biased nature through the lens of his wife’s massive donations to Democrats, saying “His wife has donated more than ten thousand dollars to Democrats. He has consistently shown his disdain for this president, his policies, and it’s unacceptable.” Watch her here:
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Also in the press conference, Leavitt addressed a question about the judge being appointed by GW Bush, noting that regardless of who appointed the judges, they have been issuing unhinged numbers of injunctions against President Trump as he tries to save the country from past policies. She said, “Well let me just say something to that effect, Garrett. 67% of all of the injunctions in this century have come against which president? Donald J. Trump. Let me say that again. 60% of the injunctions by partisan activists in the judicial branch have come against President Donald Trump.”
She then noted, that, in any case, nearly all of the judges who have been issuing injunctions in an obviously biased way are Democrat-appointed judges, saying, “And 92% of those have been from Democrat-appointed judges. This is a clear, concerted effort by leftists who don’t like this president and are trying to impose or slow down his agenda.”
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