Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said that Monday, on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Attorney General Pam Bondi’s comments led to a constitutional crisis.
Commenting on President Donald Trump deporting more than 250 migrants to El Salvador and U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordering the deportations halted, Leavitt posted on X, “A single judge in a single city cannot direct the movements of an aircraft carrying foreign alien terrorists who were physically expelled from U.S. soil.”
Host Nicolle Wallace asked, “Is a constitutional crisis upon us?”
Weissmann said, “The answer is yes.”
He continued, “I’m more concerned by the statements coming from the press secretary saying no judge can do this. I’m sorry, who on God’s green Earth is she to say that? That’s what the courts are for.”
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