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After President Donald Trump singled him out for possible impeachment, a Republican lawmaker is officially going to war against Judge James Boasberg with a new bill inspired by GOP grievances against him, per a report from Bloomberg.

Boasberg is a Washington D.C., federal district judge appointed by former President Barack Obama, who first drew the ire of MAGA Republicans in 2025 when he ruled against Trump's attempt to use the Alien Enemies Act as a means to carry out his mass deportation agenda. Those same Republicans later accused him, with no evidence, that he had forced his way onto a case against the Trump administration for its use of the Signal messaging app for military communications, despite the court's repeated insistence that he had been randomly assigned to the case per its standard policy.

In light of his frequent rulings against the administration, Trump has called for Boasberg to be impeached, which prompted pushback from Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. Numerous other Republicans began to echo those calls, including Sen. Eric Schmitt, a Missouri Republican, who also this week unveiled a new proposed bill, the BOASBERG Act, that would target the unfounded allegations against the judge.

"A Republican senator has introduced legislation that would require random case assignment in federal district courts," Bloomberg's report explained, adding later, "If passed, Schmitt’s legislation would also require district courts to publicly share their practices when it comes to the assignment of civil cases, or to say why cases can’t be randomly assigned. Anyone who attempted to 'manipulate or evade the randomized case assignment system' would face penalties, according to the bill. District judges would also be removed from a case if the Supreme Court vacates, reverses, or stays their rulings. Appeals court judges would also lose their case assignments if the Supreme Court vacated or reversed a judgment that affirmed a lower court ruling."

The report continued: "Under the bill, federal appeals courts would also be subject to random assignment procedures when it comes to creating the three-judge panels that hear cases, and cases could only be reassigned in limited circumstances. Judges would also be randomly assigned when it comes to the rare three-judge courts stood up to weigh challenges to district maps. And both district and appeals courts would have to share statistics annually on judicial assignments and reassignments."

“The BOASBERG Act prevents Judges from forcing their way onto cases and is an important piece of court transparency legislation that will help restore the American people’s confidence in our judiciary,” Schmitt said in a statement about the new proposal.

Bloomberg also noted a segment of Schmitt's proposal, which said that it was not meant "to prevent district courts from assigning cases filed within a division to 1 or more judges." The outlet interpreted this as an effort not to target the practice of "judge shopping," wherein litigants find a way to file their suits in smaller districts where they are "all but guaranteed" to land a judge friendly to their cause, which conservatives have been accused of doing frequently in recent years.

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More Republicans in the U.S. Senate are now calling for the impeachment of federal judges who have issued rulings striking down President Donald Trump's policies.

NBC News reported Wednesday that U.S. District Judges James Boasberg (appointed by former President Barack Obama) and Deborah Boardman (appointed by former President Joe Biden) have now been targeted for impeachment by multiple pro-Trump lawmakers, including Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.). While a Republican member of the House of Representatives has issued articles of impeachment naming the two judges, there have not been any votes. Cruz is hoping that will change.

"Both of these judges, I believe, meet the standard for impeachment and for conviction and removal from office," Cruz said during a Wednesday hearing.

Sen. Schmitt called Boasberg — who ruled that Trump did not have the authority to deport Venezuelans to El Salvador last year under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 — "the embodiment of a rogue judge."

"[Boasberg has] made it clear time and time again in his rulings and his comments that he, instead of wearing that black robe, wears, in fact, a blue jersey," Schmitt said. "He has continually abused the power as chief judge."

Judge Boardman – who has jurisdiction in the District of Maryland — has been targeted for impeachment for sentencing someone who attempted to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to eight years in prison. Republicans like Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) insist Boardman gave the defendant too light of a sentence, and that she treated the sentencing like "an ordinary criminal case."

Despite the calls for impeachment, it's unlikely that either judge will be removed from their position. In addition to a majority of the House of Representatives to support impeachment, two-thirds of the U.S. Senate — 67 members — would have to vote for conviction. Republicans currently have just 53 seats, and would need 14 Democrats to join them.

Click here to read NBC's report in its entirety.

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National Public Radio reported that an investigation uncovered President Donald Trump's efforts to eliminate all information and intelligence related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

According to the audio report by Tom Dreisbach and Ayesha Rascoe, they have responded by creating a public archiveof all videos, audio files, photos and other information available about the Jan. 6 attack, and they will make it searchable.

Dreisbach explained that the Trump administration is "actively trying to rewrite this history." He recalled that when it all unfolded a few years ago, the public, along with Republicans, agreed that Jan. 6 was illegal and reprehensible.

Even Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) called it "an act of domestic terrorism."

Five years later, everyone involved received a blanket pardon, including "great patriots" who attacked police. In a statement played by the reporters, Trump claimed they were not violent.

"The Justice Department has deleted records of those cases. It has scrubbed references to Jan. 6 as a riot. They fired dozens of prosecutors who worked on those cases. They even hired a former Jan. 6 defendant at the Justice Department, a guy who called cops Nazis and loudly yelled that the rioters should kill the cops," said Dreisbach.

Once the details began to disappear, Chief Justice James Boasberg of the D.C. district court ordered the government to stop any and all removal of court records related to Jan. 6. It's unclear whether that order has been followed, however.

"So, with all those actions to rewrite this history, we thought it was really important to just ground people in the facts," he continued.

The 1,500 court cases included photos, videos and information that Dreisbach said most Americans haven't seen. So, they took the "massive trove of evidence" to catalogue and ensure it is publicly available.

The full archive can be found here.

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A judge has released documents naming Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's office as responsible for telling Tennessee U.S. Attorney Robert McGuire that targeting Kilmar Ábrego García was a "top priority."

An order from Dec. 3 was unsealed late Tuesday showing Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr. reviewed about 3,000 government documents in his chambers and allowed "a few dozen" to be turned over to Ábrego's defense team.

In 2019, under the first Trump administration, Ábrego was given a work permit in the U.S. and a federal judge ruled that he could not be deported to El Salvador. Under President Donald Trump's new administration, however, Ábrego was taken into custody while driving his 5-year-old son home. Despite a judge's attempts to stop it, Ábrego wad deported to a brutal prison in El Salvador.

In April, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to bring Ábrego back to the U.S. It took more than two months for the administration to comply with the demand. Upon returning him, the Justice Department then charged Ábrego with human smuggling in the middle district of Tennessee stemming from a 2022 traffic stop. It has been an ongoing battle to deport him ever since, emblematic of the battle between the administration and the federal court system.

U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg has initiated contempt proceedings because the Trump administration defied his orders.

The newly-released documents not only confirm the orders were intentionally ignored, but it also proved the Justice Department only pressed to prosecute Ábrego after it mistakenly deported him. Ábrego's legal team is now alleging "vindictive prosecution."

McGuire previously swore he alone was behind the indictment of Ábrego, but the new documents show Blanche telling McGuire that an indictment was a “top priority." He said that the DOJ wanted it “sooner rather than later” and they even oversaw its content, noted Lawfare's Roger Parloff.

Legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance said that releasing the documents to Ábrego's lawyers "is bad news for the Trump administration, which is going to have to defend itself against Ábrego Garcia’s claim he’s being vindictively prosecuted. But that claim is supported by some of the government’s own emails."

The vindictiveness case "hinges on timing," Parloff explained in a BlueSky thread. "For 3 years the government took no steps to charge him for his 11/30/22 traffic stop. It sent him to CECOT on 3/15/25 and on 4/1/25, closed his arrest file."

"Only after Ábrego won his Maryland civil case, with the Supreme Court on 4/10/25 ordering the government to facilitate Ábrego's return, did the government reopen Ábrego's criminal case," Parloff added.

Blanche confessed to Fox News in an interview that the reason they went after Ábrego was "a judge in Maryland" accused the government of doing something wrong.

"That sounds vindictive," said Parloff.

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Former assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Glenn Kirschner that officials in President Donald Trump's administration are on shaky ground regarding potential perjury charges.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who is the chief judge in the District of Columbia, on Tuesday set an evidentiary hearing to determine which (if any) Trump officials intentionally defied his order to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants against in violation of constitutional due process rights. Boasberg ordered two Department of Justice (DOJ) officials to testify in a case examining whether Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem should face criminal charges for allegedly violating a March 2025 order halting the removal of the migrants.

At the center of the escalating court fight is a fundamental test of presidential power and judicial authority and whether Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defied a federal judge’s order to stop the removals.

Defiance may be emblematic of Trump officials, said Kirschner. At his U.S. Appeals Court nomination hearing, Trump DOJ official Emil Bove denied having any knowledge of telling federal prosecutors to defy court orders, claiming to senators “I don’t recall” when asked if he told colleagues that they might have to consider telling the courts “f—— you" regarding judicial decisions.

But according to Kirschner, “I don’t recall” is not a perjury proof answer.

“This has always stuck in my craw in the Trump era,” said Kirschner. “If I’m put on the stand, either in Congress — and it doesn’t even have to be under oath in Congress or in a grand jury or in a trial — and I am asked the following question ‘Mr. Kirschner, what is your middle name’ and my answer is ‘uh, I don’t recall,’ but my middle name is relevant, it is material, it is of consequence to the issue being litigated, I’ve just committed the crime of perjury, or in Congress, the 1001 violation named after the Federal Criminal Statute 18 U.S. Code § 1001.”

“So, no. ‘I do not recall’ is not a perjury-proof answer if you dorecall, and I am quite sure Emil Bove recalls what he said in that room full of lawyers.”

Kirschner's guest, Adam Klasfeld, from “All Rise News” added that DOJ whistleblower Erez Reuveni, who claims Bove urged officials to ignore judges orders, possesses a trove of documents proving the incident exists, regardless of how hard Bove attempts to doge the issue.

“Why didn’t he just deny it [during his hearing]?” Klasfeld asked. “Was there tape? Was there a piece of evidence? And we found with a flood of evidence from Reuveni notes, his emails form the time, documented his conversation with about Bove’s legal advice. So, I wouldn’t be surprised if all that comes up on the stand.”

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A former Department of Justice chief of staff suggested that the department flout a court order from a federal inquiry, all while said judge pushes an inquiry into whether or not the department advised Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to deliberately flout one of his orders from March.

On Tuesday morning, senior Politico reporter Kyle Cheney highlighted a post to X from Chad Mizelle, who served as DOJ chief of staff from the start of Donald Trump's second term through October, departing the office for unspecified reasons. In the post, he urged the DOJ to "ignore" a demand for testimony from Judge James Boasberg.

"DOJ should not give loser Boasberg the time of day," Mizelle wrote. "Don't participate in his clown show. Ignore him. In the meantime, Congress needs to start acting like a co-equal [sic] branch and initiate its own inquiry into Boasberg."

Boasberg's inquiry seeks to determine if DHS intentionally disobeyed his order from March to prevent 137 Venezuelan men from being deported to the infamously violent CECOT prison in El Salvador, and if they were advised to do so by the DOJ. As Cheney highlighted in his own post, Mizelle, who was DOJ chief of staff at the time of the order, appears to be making the same suggestion now.

"Boasberg is trying to determine whether people inside DOJ advised Kristi Noem et al to blow off a court order," Cheney wrote. "Tonight, the guy who was chief of staff at the time of the events in question is telling DOJ … to blow off Boasberg’s order."

Boasberg initially made the ruling due to concerns that the men had not received due process, after lawyers for the men frantically petitioned the court to prevent their deportations. Despite his order, the planes carrying the men were not turned around. Noem previously claimed in November that she gave the order to turn over the Venezuelan men to El Salvadoron the advice of Trump administration lawyers.

The judge is now seeking testimony from two DOJ lawyers who were involved in the March deportation effort, including one who has since been fired for defying the Trump administration's plans.

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By Katelynn Richardson Published on November 4, 2025

An Obama-appointed judge may have violated federal law by greenlighting a Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) effort to secretly secure Republican senators’ private cell phone data, legal experts say.

Chief Judge of the D.C. District Court James Boasberg signed orders in 2023 preventing cell phone carriers from notifying 11 Republican members of Congress about special counsel Jack Smith’s subpoenas seeking their cell phone data from Jan. 4 and Jan. 7, 2021.

The subpoenas were part of Smith’s investigation to build his 2020 election case against President Donald Trump. They sought call “detail records for inbound and outbound calls, text messages, direct connect, and voicemail messages” from Republican members, though he did not request contents of any messages, according to records released by Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley.

The judge claimed disclosing the subpoenas could “result in destruction of or tampering with evidence” to justify keeping them hidden, records show.

These orders could violate a federal law if they involved an “official” phone line, Mike Fragoso, who served as chief counsel to former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, noted.

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Federal law states that communications providers for Senate offices “shall not be barred, through operation of any court order or any statutory provision, from notifying the Senate office of any legal process seeking disclosure of Senate data.”

“If Smith or Boasberg violated that statute, it’s a very serious problem that probably justifies a bar investigation and could predicate an impeachment inquiry,” Fragoso wrote on X.

A media liaison for the judge declined to comment.

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“Safe bet: All the legal ethics ‘experts’ trotted out on CNN who mercilessly hounded @JeffClarkUS and @DrJohnEastman for giving legal advice around Jan. 6th will be MIA on the issue of the proper discipline for actual defiance of a federal statute by a biased anti-Trump judge,” Heritage Foundation Vice President of Domestic Policy Roger Severino wrote on X.

Smith sought records from Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Ted Cruz of Texas, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Rick Scott of Florida and Tommy Tuberville of Alaska, along with Pennsylvania Rep. Mike Kelly.

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“Congress enacts laws,” Empower Oversight Founder Jason Foster wrote on X. “The perma-Executive and Judicial Branches simply ignore them. If your elected Congress can’t or won’t control unelected bureaucrats in DC, then representative gov’t is merely an illusion.”

AT&T and Verizon both received subpoenas, though AT&T did not comply.

“In May 2023, Special Counsel Smith sent AT&T a grand jury subpoena that included a request for phone records associated with AT&T accounts for two other members of Congress,” the company wrote in an Oct. 24 letter to Grassley. “However, when AT&T raised questions with the Special Counsel Smith’s office concerning the legal basis for seeking records of members of Congress, the Special Counsel did not pursue the subpoena further, and no records were produced.”

Verizon produced information because the subpoena was “facially valid” but noted it would be making some changes to its practices going forward, according to the company’s letter to Grassley.

Ted Cruz Calls for Impeachment

Cruz called on the House to impeach Boasberg, an Obama appointee, during a Wednesday press conference.

“Judge Boasberg put his robe down, stood up and said, ‘Sign me up to be part of the partisan vendetta against 20% of Republicans in the Senate,’” Cruz said. “Mark my words: there will be accountability.”

Boasberg’s order amounts to “legal slander,” Sen. Lindsey Graham said Friday, adding that he “would like to know the factual predicate for issuing the gag order.” He called for a “Watergate-style investigation” on potential misconduct by both Smith and Boasberg.

“My carrier, Verizon, was extremely irresponsible by complying with this subpoena,” Graham said in a statement Friday. “Instead, they should have followed AT&T’s example and declined to turn over the records because it is a violation of the speech and debate clause of the U.S. Constitution. I also expect the House of Representatives to investigate Judge Boasberg’s potential misconduct, which could be grounds for his impeachment.”

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“Jeb Boasberg should definitely be impeached by the House of Representatives because not only are his rulings lawless, extremely lawless, they’re extremely dangerous,” Article III Project President Mike Davis told Laura Ingraham on Friday. “This is part of a pattern.”

Several members of Congress are already calling to impeach Boasberg, with Republican Texas Rep. Brandon Gill indicating Wednesday that he is “working” on articles of impeachment.

Gill previously introduced articles of impeachment against Boasberg in March after the judge ordered the Trump administration to turn around planes carrying alleged Tren de Aragua gang members to El Salvador, though the effort has not moved forward.

“The @HouseGOP should act swiftly to impeach Boasberg as well as other indefensibly lawless judges like Boardman (reduced sentence for would be killer of Kavanaugh because he’s ‘trans,’” Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy wrote Friday on X.

Republican Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt also called for Boasberg’s impeachment, writing Friday he is “openly biased, gone rogue, and likely broken the law.”

Smith’s attorneys wrote in an Oct. 21 letter to Grassley that the “subpoena for toll records was entirely proper, lawful, and consistent with established Department of Justice policy.”

“Although you have not reached out to us to discuss this matter, we are compelled to correct inaccurate assertions made by you and others concerning the issuance of a grand jury subpoena for the toll records of eight Senators and one Member of the House of Representative,” attorneys Lanny Breuer and Peter Koski wrote on Smith’s behalf. “Mr. Smith’s actions as Special Counsel were consistent with the decisions of a prosecutor who has devoted his career to following the facts and the law, without fear or favor and without regard for the political consequences.”

Smith was forced to drop his case after Trump won the 2024 election.

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James Boasberg: Chief Judge of the US District Court for the District of Columbia, according to the District Court for the District of Columbia (.gov). He was appointed by then-President Obama. Boasberg recently presided over a case involving the deportation of Venezuelan migrants under the Alien Enemies Act, where he ordered the planes to turn around, an order the administration allegedly defied. He later found probable cause for holding Trump administration officials in criminal contempt of court for their actions in the case.

The Misconduct Complaint: The complaint filed by the Justice Department, at Bondi's direction, accuses Judge Boasberg of making "improper public comments" about President Trump and his administration during a Judicial Conference. Bondi claims these comments have "undermined the integrity of the judiciary."

Connection and Context: This complaint appears to be part of an escalating conflict between the Trump administration and the judiciary. The administration has accused judges ruling against them of being biased or acting beyond their authority, while the judges argue they are upholding the rule of law. This particular complaint seems to be a reaction to Judge Boasberg's actions in the Venezuelan migrant deportation case and his consideration of contempt charges against administration officials.