White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt went off on activist judges on Friday for cutting President Donald Trump off at the knees as he seeks to use his executive powers to the fullest legal extent possible.
Leavitt made the remarks outside of the White House when asked about a court ruling from a federal judge that ordered that the administration rehire thousands of workers with probationary status.
Leavitt said that the administration would respond by “fighting back” through appealing and using the full weight of the White House Counsel’s Office and lawyers in the federal government “who believe that this injunction is entirely unconstitutional.”
“You cannot have a low-level district court judge filing an injunction to usurp the executive authority of the President of the United States,” Leavitt said. “That is completely absurd!”
“And as the executive of the…
