Garrett (5:19)

I have one other question, but I wanna follow up on Katie's question. Actually, you said the mass deportation campaign would continue, but she asked about the flights specifically. Will those flights to El Salvador continue while this case is being appealed?

Carolyn Levette (5:30)

We don't have any flights planned specifically, but we will continue with the mass deportations. And 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. That is an egregious abuse of the bench. This judge cannot, 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 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. His wife has donated more than $10,000 to Democrats, and he has consistently shown his disdain for this president and his policies, and it's unacceptable.

Garrett (6:26)

You took me right where I wanted to go about the idea that these people are all foreign terrorists. But Judge Boseberg was originally appointed by George W. Bush and then elevated by Barack Obama. I just feel like I should clear that up.

Carolyn Levette (6:36)

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, 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.

Garrett (7:09)

So given that, do you think it's a good use of Congress's time and the president's political capital to try to impeach and remove a federal judge which would take 67 votes, you're unlikely to get in the Senate?

Carolyn Levette (7:20)

Well, look, the President has made it clear that he believes this judge in this case should be impeached. And he has also made it clear that he has great respect for the Chief Justice, John Roberts. And it's incumbent upon the Supreme Court to rein in these activist judges.

Michael Popak (7:34)

It's time for Carolyn Levette to resign.

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Want your press secretary to be like that lady wearing a pink kimono in the North Korean television, which I don't. You know you're supposed to have credibility when you talk to the press. You're supposed to be a spokesperson for the administration and its positions. You're not supposed to use it to attack federal judges. You know, it's one thing for Elon Musk to try to do it. It's nothing for Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, to do it. But the press secretary during a press statement, it's because she knows no boundaries. She knows no protocol. She hasn't been properly trained. She's not that bright. She'll say anything that the Trump lawyers and Stephen Miller puts in front of her to say, and it's got to come to an end, you know, And I don't know why they think picking a fight with Chief Justice Roberts is in their best interest, or even Chief justice or Chief Judge Boasberg is in their best interest. Boasberg ties back to Kavanaugh, an important vote for Donald Trump, for his administration policies, and John Roberts. This has been a terrible two weeks for John Roberts and Trump. You'd send them to marriage counseling if they were a married couple. First, Roberts gets annoyed because Donald Trump tries to give him a fist bump during the joint session. The joint speech. The speech to the joint session. Sorry. He looked like. He looked like he had. He ate a bad oyster. And then later that day, he and Amy Coney Barrett blasted Trump, ruled against him, forced the Trump administration to pay $2 billion in U.S. aIDS debt on order. And now you've got Roberts, who's decided he's got to step out of character and fire back at Trump or he's going to look like a weakling. As his federal judges, because they all report to him, he runs that branch, are being attacked. And what does Carolyn Levette decide to do? You think she'd learn her lesson when federal judges used her own words against her to grant temporary restraining orders and injunctions against the Trump administration? But no, no, that hasn't stopped her. Nobody's clipped her wings. No, but she. She apparently does not get briefed by any lawyer worth. Worth their. Their. Worth their salt. And, and now you have the doxing of a federal judge. I'm sure that the attacks on him and his family have now escalated. I'm sure it's something. Now he's going to have to redouble his protection. His. His of service and contingency gonna have to happen. We're gonna continue to follow Donald Trump's descent into the last ring of hell and his attempts to drag us along with him. This is. This goes beyond them drawing a line in the sand to try to battle the federal judges into submission. We've now reached a whole new level, whole new turning point of a constitutional crisis created by Donald Trump and his administration. They want this fight, and they're going to get it. And now the question is, what is Chief Justice Roberts going to do next? And what is Kavanaugh going to do next? And are they going to allow the attacks on the judiciary? I mean, John Roberts, in his end of the year, beginning of the year address, State of the judiciary address just this year, said that one of the greatest threats was the attacks on the judiciary and to try to compromise their independence. Well, what is he going to make of this? This can't bode well. They need. That's why it's the definition of insanity. They need the Supreme Court and every vote they can get to support their policies, and yet they continue to bash and challenge Chief Justice Roberts. She might as well have said something.

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Michael Popak (14:13)

Carolyn Levette, during the press conference. That's how potentially devastating this is going to be. We're going to follow everything that comes out of Carolyn Levette's mouth and we're going to shove it right back at her in court filings. And we're going to follow it here on the Midas Dutch network and on Legal af. So until my next report, I'm Michael Popak.

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