CNN’s Jeff Zeleny: “How does the President define a bad judge? Is it just someone who disagrees with him?”

CNN’s Jeff Zeleny: “How does the President define a bad judge? Is it just someone who disagrees with him?”

Press Sec. Karoline Leavitt: “No.”

Zeleny: “And is that a dangerous precedent in this case because this is a temporary ruling from Judge Bosberg that he could ultimately rule in your favor. Is he setting up a standard here for calling for the impeachment of a judge who may ultimately rule on your side?”

Leavitt: “No, it has nothing to do with disagreeing with the President on policy. It's disagreeing with the Constitution and the law, and it's trying to usurp the authority of the executive branch of this country. It's having baseless reasoning for these injunctions, and it's a clear effort by these judges to slow roll this President's agenda and if you just look at the injunctions that this President has faced deporting foreign terrorists from our homeland, hiring and firing of executive branch of employees, which — when the President is the executive of the executive branch. You also see an injunction by a partisan activist judge when it comes to the Secretary of Defense trying to determine the readiness of our troops and the qualifications of our troops in our armed forces. Does a single district court judge really have more authority over the commander in chief and the Secretary of Defense to determine who should serve in our United States armed forces? Absolutely not. Anyone who has taken a basic civic civics lesson can understand that, and it's ridiculous lawfare that we are witnessing.”

CNN’s @JeffZeleny: “How does the President define a bad judge? Is it just someone who disagrees with him?”@PressSec @KarolineLeavitt: “No.”

Zeleny: “And is that a dangerous precedent in this case because this is a temporary ruling from Judge Bosberg that he could ultimately… pic.twitter.com/uue5veuoZ3

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck)March 19, 2025