White House escalates attacks on judge in deportation case: ‘Egregious abuse of the bench’

 https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5203530-white-house-trump-deportation-judge-attack/

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday stepped up attacks on a federal judge that ordered flights carrying alleged Venezuelan gang members to be turned around, decrying him as a “Democrat activist” despite originally being nominated by a Republican president.

The judge is demanding information about several deportation flights that left U.S. soil Saturday and whether they violated his order. The Justice Department insists it complied because the flights had left U.S. territory by the time the judge’s written order was issued. It has since cited national security concerns as a reason to not be more forthcoming with details of what happened over the weekend.

Trump has called for Boasberg to be impeached over the ruling. While that is unlikely —impeaching a judge would require a majority in the House and 67 votes in the Senate — Trump’s attack still drew a rare rebuke from Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.