NBC News Senior White House Correspondent Garrett Haake fact-checked White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt over her claim that a “Democrat activist” judge blocked President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Trump called for the impeachment of federal Judge James Boasberg after he temporarily ordered the Trump administration to stop deporting migrants under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

This prompted Chief Justice John Roberts to issue a statement rebuking Trump, which Trump decided wasn’t about him.

At Wednesday’s White House press briefing, Haake asked about the case, and Leavitt assailed Judge Boasberg as a “Democrat activist.”

As Haake prepared to ask his follow-up question, he pointed out to Leavitt that the judge was actually appointed to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia by a Republican president in 2002 and promoted by then-President Barack Obama:

GARRETT HAAKE: 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?

KAROLINE LEAVITT: 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 of this White House and of this administration. 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 Boesberg, 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 HAAKE: You took me right where I wanted to go about the idea of these people are all foreign terrorists, but Judge Boesberg was originally appointed by Georgia W. Bush and then elevated by Barack Obama. I just feel like I should clear that up–.

KAROLINE LEAVITT: Well, let me just say something to that effect, Garrett. Sixty-seven percent of all of the injunctions in this century have come against which president? Donald J. Trump.

Let me say that again. Sixty percent of the injunctions by partisan activists in the judicial branch have come against President Donald Trump, and 92 percent 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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