Ashley Moody says ‘activist litigants’ swayed Alligator Alcatraz judge

Florida’s former Attorney General and current U.S. Senator is criticizing a decision by a federal judge that orders the shutdown of Florida’s pre-deportation lockup Alligator Alcatraz .

Ashley Moody argued Friday that Judge Kathleen Williams sided with “activist litigants” over the interests of the state in ruling for a cessation of operations on the tent prison erected at a South Florida training airport.

“This is why the public is becoming increasingly frustrated with these … political activist litigants that are using the courts to try and impede an administration from getting the job done that they promised to the American people. And this Obama era judge played right into the hands of these activist litigants and has said, no, you have to shut down Alligator Alcatraz over