White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt tried to go after U.S. District Judge James Boasberg during a briefing. It did not go well.
I took a minute to highlight the errors of fact and judgment in Karoline Leavitt's latest offensive against U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg.
As it turns out, the list wasn't short. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-03-19T18:51:05.132Z
I took a minute to highlight the errors of fact and judgment in Karoline Leavitt's latest offensive against U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg.
As it turns out, the list wasn't short.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/white-house-targets-federal-judge-gets-fact-checked-real-time-rcna197131
On Tuesday, Donald Trump broke new ground, calling for U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s impeachment, not because the jurist did something wrong, but because he issued a ruling the president didn’t like in an Alien Enemies Act case. A day later, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt kept the offensive going during a briefing with reporters.
It reached the point, however, in which the presidential spokesperson had to be fact-checked in real time.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3lkqprhu5xs2j
......As for the suggestion that Boasberg’s record is one of a Democratic “activist,” reality tells a very different story.
But if that weren’t quite enough, NBC News’ Garrett Haake took a moment to remind Leavitt that B
oasberg was first made a judge by George W. Bush — who, if memory serves, was not exactly a far-left Democratic partisan — before Obama elevated him to the federal district court. (What’s more, it’s worth noting for context that
Boasberg was also appointed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who has also never been mistaken for a liberal ideologue.)......
The other way is to note that courts keep enjoining Trump’s provocative and legally dubious moves because — wait for it —
Trump keeps pushing provocative and legally dubious moves, far more than his predecessors from either party.
As lawyer David R. Lurie summarized, in response to Leavitt’s curious argument
, “Maybe, just maybe, it is an indication that Trump — a convicted felon — habitually breaks the law.”
As for the president’s remarks from last week in which
he suggested criticizing judges should be seen as “totally illegal,” apparently the White House has moved on from that rather quickly.
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