White House Rips Judge As ‘Democrat Activist.’ Except He’s Ruled For Trump Lots Of Times.

WASHINGTON — The White House on Wednesday accused a federal judge of being a “Democrat activist” after he issued an order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from deporting hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.

“It’s very, very clear that this is an activist judge,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said of U.S. district judge James Boasberg.

“Judge Boasberg is a Democrat activist,” Leavitt said. “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.”

Except Boasberg, whom President Donald Trump is mad at for halting his mass deportations, has ruled in favor of Trump lots of times before this case.

He previously ordered the release of 15,000 documents on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server when she was Trump’s presidential opponent in 2016. He dismissed a 2017 lawsuit aimed at forcing the IRS to release Trump’s tax returns, preventing his taxes from becoming public.

Boasberg also limited the scope of memos the FBI had to release relating to former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, issued more lenient sentences for Jan. 6, 2021, defendants than what prosecutors were seeking, and limited grand jury material disclosure in Trump’s classified documents case.

Beyond his past decisions that have benefited Trump, Boasberg has enjoyed strong support from Republicans for virtually his entire career. President George W. Bush first nominated him to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in 2002, a judgeship he held for nine years.

And while it’s true that Obama elevated Boasberg to be a U.S. district court judge in 2011, he was confirmed 96-0 by the Senate.

Despite all of this, Trump on Tuesday railed against Boasberg as a “Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator” in a rage-filled post on social media.

“This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges’ I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

This entirely unethical demand by the president prompted Supreme Court Justice John Roberts to issue a rare rebuke of Trump, saying impeachment is not an “appropriate” response to disagreeing with a judge’s ruling.

Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on Wednesday said that he supported Roberts making his statement. He did so “to explain to the people of this country how the legal system works and how it doesn’t work,” Breyer said on CNN. “It doesn’t work by impeaching a judge because you don’t like his decision.”