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

Leavitt told reporters at a press briefing that the administration does not have any additional flights to El Salvador carrying alleged gang members planned after U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg tried to intervene with a verbal order as flights were in the air on Saturday. The press secretary then teed off on Boasberg, who has drawn the ire of Republicans........

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