White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt ripped a federal district court judge on Wednesday after he ordered flights carrying deported suspected Venezuelan gang members who were in the country illegally returned.
Leavitt’s remarks came on the heels of President Donald Trump’s criticism of U.S. District Judge James Boasberg as a “radical left lunatic” following a temporary order blocking deportation flights.
In addition to labeling Boasberg an “activist” judge, she also took a verbal shot at his wife over her political donations to Democrats.
“The judge in this case is essentially trying to say the president doesn’t have the executive authority to deport foreign terrorists from our American soil.
That is an egregious abuse of the bench,” she told assembled reporters during a press briefing.
Earlier this month, Trump designated the Venezuelan-based Tren de Aragua gang a terrorist organization.
He ordered hundreds of them removed from the country last week under authorities vested in him by the centuries-old Alien Enemies Act, but Boasberg claimed in his ruling that Trump didn’t have the power to do so.Watch below
