Karoline Leavitt Grilled On Trump Calling For Impeachment Of Judge Who Blocked Deportation Flights

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During a White House press briefing on Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about President Trump calling for the impeachment of a judge who placed a temporary pause on deportation flights of alleged Venezuelan gang members.

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00:00And if I could ask a question about the judge as well, how does a President define a bad

00:05judge?

00:06Just someone who disagrees with him?

00:07No.

00:08And it's a dangerous precedent in this case because this is a temporary ruling from Judge

00:12Boasberg that he could ultimately rule in your favor.

00:15Is he setting up a standard here for calling for the impeachment of a judge who may ultimately

00:20rule on your side?

00:22No.

00:23It has nothing to do with disagreeing with the President on policy.

00:26It's with disagreeing with the Constitution and the law.

00:29And it's trying to usurp the authority of the executive branch of this country.

00:33It's having baseless reasoning for these injunctions.

00:37And it's a clear effort by these judges to slow roll this President's agenda.

00:42And if you just look at the injunctions that this President has faced, deporting foreign

00:47terrorists from our homeland, hiring and firing of executive branch employees when the President

00:54is the executive of the executive branch.

00:57You also see an injunction by a partisan activist judge when it comes to the Secretary of Defense

01:03trying to determine the readiness of our troops and the qualifications of our troops in our

01:09armed forces.

01:10Does a single district court judge really have more authority over the Commander-in-Chief

01:15and the Secretary of Defense to determine who should serve in our United States Armed

01:19Forces?

01:20Absolutely not.

01:21Anyone who has taken a basic civics lesson can understand that.

01:25And it's ridiculous lawfare that we are witnessing.

01:28And it's –

01:29The President said he supports – I'm sorry, the President said he respects the Chief Justice

01:33here.

01:34Mm-hmm.

01:35Does he respect him specifically on this case, in this opinion, or respects him overall?

01:40And has he spoken to any other Supreme Court justice about it?

01:42He – the President respects Chief Justice Roberts overall.

01:45He just expressed that to me in the Oval Office.

01:48But it's also quite clear that the Supreme Court needs to rein in these judges who are

01:52acting as partisan activists.

01:54And they are undermining the judicial branch, and it's a dereliction of duty on their

01:59behalf.

02:00D.N.

Karoline Leavitt Grilled On Trump Calling For Impeachment Of Judge Who Blocked Deportation Flights

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