‘He has time to tweet’: Hegseth skewered in court as fed-up judge refuses to back down

A federal judge took a sharp swipe at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth while rejecting the Trump administration’s bid to remove her from an unrelated case. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes made the remark in a footnote to a 13-page opinion filed Sunday denying a motion to disqualify her from a lawsuit over the administration’s tree-clearing at Washington’s East Potomac Golf Course, and she blew off complaints about her earlier jab at Hegseth's busy schedule as simply “facts, not insults.”In its recusal motion, the government tried to show that Reyes was biased against the executive branch by pointing to other cases on her docket. One complaint was that she had “ma[de] fun of” Hegseth and threatened to compel his deposition testimony in Talbott v. Trump, a challenge to the administration’s ban on transgender troops.Reyes said neither was true.She wrote that she had actually denied the plaintiffs’ request for a seven-hour deposition...