WH issues blistering rebuke of judicial blocks on executive actions

White House press secretary Karoline Leavit on Thursday issued a scathing indictment of federal judges imposing nationwide stays on a plethora of executive branch policies and expressed hope that the Supreme Court would "rein them in."

"The second Trump administration... seems to be subject to an effort to stymie the agenda using rogue lower court judges," Leavitt asserted.

"There is an effort by this administration to tackle these rogue judges and the injunctions and the blockades that we have faced in our broken judicial system in every case. I mean, we have seen time and time again these lower district court judges ruling against this administration and the President's basic executive authority and powers, and this administration is fighting every single one of those battles in court," she went on.

Leavitt then rattled off a list of judicial stays, noting that "a court ordered the Trump administration to return already deported terrorist aliens back to the United States. A court has ruled the Trump administration can't even temporarily pause our refugee programs. Courts prohibited the Trump administration from eliminating federal funding for child transgender surgery and mutilation, a practice that the American people overwhelmingly reject."

"A court also held that the Trump administration could not ban people experiencing gender dysphoria or mental health issues from serving in the military. Ridiculous. Courts prohibited the removal of transgender women from women's prisons, despite potential physical harm to real women in those prisons biological women," she added. "A Northern District of California judge issued an absurd ruling that the president cannot fire people within the executive branch without Congress passing a bill, even though Congress has expressly authorized the President, through the Office of Personnel Management, to authorize reductions in force across agencies, a court also ordered the Trump administration to rehire 1000s of already fired employees."

"In several cases, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from defunding the Department of Education and other signature campaign promise that this President has the power to implement. Courts ordered the Trump administration could not eliminate funding for illegal DEI programs," Leavitt continued.

"These are just a few of the ridiculous orders that we have seen from lower district court judges every day, and we hope that the Supreme Court will weigh in and rein them in," she concluded.