MIKE DAVIS: Why DC's Trump-hating Judge Boasberg must be impeached

James Boasberg, the main justice of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and a Biden appointee, is simply a judicial disgrace. Boasberg’s caller rulings amusement helium is unfit for the bench.

His repeated maltreatment of judicial power, whether undermining nationalist security, releasing convulsive threats, oregon enabling unlawful surveillance, demonstrates a blatant disregard for the Constitution and a unsafe partisan docket that disqualifies him from holding a beingness appointment.

The clip has travel for the House of Representatives to bash its occupation and impeach him.

James Boasberg, main justice of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, attends a sheet treatment astatine the yearly American Board Association (ABA) Spring Antitrust Meeting astatine the Marriott Marquis successful Washington, April 2, 2025.  (Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty Images)

The Constitution fixes the word of work for a justice arsenic "during bully Behaviour." The Constitution besides dictates that impeachment is due for "high crimes and misdemeanors."  House Democrats successful 2020 argued an authoritative tin get impeached for an maltreatment of powerfulness adjacent without a statutory crime, mounting an important precedent. The Constitution draws nary favoritism betwixt the requirements for impeaching Executive Branch and Judicial Branch officials. What is bully for the Executive Branch goose is conscionable arsenic bully for the Judicial Branch gander, truthful the House should not hesitate to prosecute a judicial impeachment.

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Boasberg’s archetypal enactment of misconduct occurred during a judicial conference. During the earliest stages of President Trump’s 2nd term, Boasberg expressed the presumption to Chief Justice John Roberts that President Trump would not travel tribunal orders. The President has not violated a tribunal order. Boasberg’s assertion had nary ground and was plainly partisan. Boasberg baselessly told Chief Justice Roberts that Trump wouldn’t travel tribunal orders, an unfounded partisan assertion that undermines immoderate anticipation of impartiality.

FILE - Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court John Roberts speaks during a lecture to the Georgetown Law School graduating people of 2025, successful Washington, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Tren de Aragua is simply a barbaric planetary state-sponsored violent enactment from Venezuela. MS-13 is an animalistic pack based successful El Salvador.  Thousands of these pack members person travel to the United States and perpetrated horrific acts. In March, the Trump medication deported hundreds of these barbarians to El Salvador, wherever they were sent to a maximum information prison. Boasberg issued a highly amerciable and unsafe bid directing the authorities to crook astir planes arsenic they were successful planetary airspace, flying implicit the Gulf of America. In doing so, Boasberg exposed an ongoing subject cognition and gave an bid that could person endangered Americans.

Why would we person information successful spot successful the United States to woody with an unexpected influx of hundreds of unsafe terrorist, due to the fact that immoderate rabidly partisan justice conscionable illegally opened his courtroom and stunningly attempted to sabotage an ongoing subject operation? Rather, the information footprint was successful El Salvador—hundreds of military, intel, and law-enforcement officials—where the terrorists were expected to land. There was besides a superior hazard to the unit connected the planes, fixed that they had a constricted substance proviso and were successful the mediate of the Gulf of America. Boasberg showed a blatant disregard for these superior risks successful issuing a highly amerciable and unsafe bid that helium lacked jurisdiction to give.

The planes landed successful El Salvador, and Boasberg began contempt proceedings. Even aft a D.C. Circuit sheet rejected his reasoning, Boasberg pressed ahead, ordering the medication to item its deliberations that March day. The Justice Department is objecting, asserting that Boasberg is violating the foundational rule of separation of powers by having enforcement subdivision officials illegally divulge privileged interior discussions.

Then-Special Counsel Jack Smith delivers remarks connected an unsealed indictment including 4 felony counts against erstwhile President Donald Trump Aug. 1, 2023, successful Washington.   (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Moreover, Boasberg played a cardinal relation successful Operation Arctic Frost—one of the astir unsafe spy scandals successful our history. Biden Special Counsel Jack Smith, a governmental scud rocket sent to instrumentality retired President Trump via lawfare with the afloat blessing of Biden and his Justice Department, subpoenaed the telephone records of astir a twelve U.S. senators. Boasberg issued a gag bid preventing the telephone companies from disclosing the accusation for a year. With nary basis, helium reasoned that disclosure could pb to demolition of grounds and witnesser intimidation. The applicable statute, 2 U.S.C. § 6628, explicitly requires disclosure to the Senate erstwhile specified spying occurs. Boasberg present is attempting to weasel his mode retired of this jam, claiming that helium did not cognize that Smith was seeking the senators’ records. Either Boasberg is lying, oregon helium was an amerciable rubber stamp who signed immoderate Smith enactment nether his nose. It is disgraceful, and Boasberg, citing the aforesaid separation-of-powers assertion that the Justice Department is utilizing successful the contempt proceeding, refused to attest earlier the House Judiciary Committee past week.

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Finally, Boasberg has shown a flippant interest for the information of President Trump. Nathalie Rose Jones is simply a profoundly disturbed woman. She made a societal media station threatening to disembowel President Trump. She admitted to the station erstwhile the Secret Service visited her. Then, Jones attended a protestation and was spotted adjacent the White House carrying a knife. Authorities arrested her, and adjacent Democrat-appointed U.S. Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya, exercising the astir basal level of communal sense, ordered her held without bail. Then, Boasberg stepped successful and overruled Upadhyaya, releasing Jones to spell location with an physics monitor.

Boasberg has not simply issued a ruling with which conservatives disagree. Boasberg alternatively has engaged successful a signifier of impeachment-worthy behavior—extremely lawless and unsafe partisan rulings—that shows nary signs of ending. He is bolder than ever, refusing to attest earlier Congress and proceeding merrily on with his absurd contempt vendetta. The House disgraced itself with 2 impeachments of President Trump. It is clip for the House to redeem itself by bringing crushed backmost to the impeachment process. Boasberg is simply a more-than-worthy candidate, and the House should impeach him earlier they spell location for the year.

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