CV NEWS FEED // Republican Texas Rep. Brandon Gill has introduced articles of impeachment against District Court Judge James Boasberg, the federal judge who halted President Donald Trump’s plan to deport members of a violent Venezuelan gang under the Alien Enemies Act.
Gill filed the resolution against Boasberg Tuesday, claiming the judge’s “conduct jeopardizes the safety of the nation, represents an abuse of judicial power, and is detrimental to the orderly functioning of the judiciary.” Gill’s impeachment push follows the judge’s emergency order to halt Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport illegal immigrants linked to Tren de Aragua (TdA), a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.
Fox News first reported the impeachment resolution, in which Gill accuses Boasberg of “tying the president’s hands so that Trump and his team, instead of executing on the mandate the voters gave him, are litigating every single action that the president is taking.”
“In a brief interview with Fox News Digital shortly before filing his resolution, Gill suggested he wanted the matter to go through the House in traditional form — which would first put the resolution in front of the House Judiciary Committee, where Gill is a member,” Fox reported.
“I’ll be talking to [Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio] about it,” Gill told Fox. “I think the best way to do this…is to go through the judiciary committee, which is where impeachment of judges runs through. I think the more we can stick with that plan, the better.”
Boasberg issued his controversial ruling late Saturday, but the Trump administration completed a number of deportation flights that were already underway at the time.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt argued Monday that “all of the planes that were subject to the written order… took off before the order was entered in the courtroom on Saturday,” according to Fox News.
Trump himself weighed in on the matter Tuesday, calling Boasberg a “Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator” on his Truth Social account. Trump further asserted that “fighting illegal immigration may have been the number one reason for this historic victory.”
Gill, who serves on the House Judiciary Committee, argued similarly that Boasberg’s decision was “unconstitutional” and an “overreach into executive authority.”
Boasberg, however, pushed back on the administration’s defense, arguing in court that his powers still applied even if the deportation flights had already departed U.S. airspace. “I’m just asking how you think my equitable powers do not attach to a plane that has departed the U.S.,” he reportedly told a Trump lawyer, per Fox News.
As CatholicVote reported Monday, Trump Border Czar Tom Homan emphatically rejected the judge’s ruling.
“We are going to make this country safe again,” Homan said. “I don’t care what the judges think. I don’t care what the Left thinks. We’re coming.”
“Legal analysts predict that the conflict between the administration and the federal judge could soon escalate to the Supreme Court,” CatholicVote’s report added, “where justices may weigh the extent of a single judge’s authority to place limits on executive power over immigration enforcement.”
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