Our old friend Judge Boasberg enabled Arctic Frost
Remember Boasberg? I do. My first mention of him on this blog was back in 2015, concerning his ultra-liberal rulings on illegal immigration. Here’s a list of all the posts in which I mention Boasberg; there are quite a few.
And here he is again:
The subpoena [in Arctic Frost] requested records and communications related to over 430 individual and organizations — all of them appear to be aimed at Republicans,” the Iowa Republican [Grassley] added, noting requests sent to the late conservative icon Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA and the Republican Attorneys General Association.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), one of the nine Republicans whose phone metadata was sought, said “Arctic Frost is Joe Biden’s Watergate.”
“Merrick Garland was a fundamentally corrupt attorney general. Jack Smith was a fundamentally corrupt prosecutor. This was a political enemies list from the beginning,” he told reporters, brandishing the court order that demanded AT&T hand over his cell records to the feds.
The order was signed by US District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg and barred the cell carrier from letting Cruz know about the request “for at least one year,” he said.
The Texas Republican and others called for Boasberg’s impeachment in the House, with Cruz claiming the judge was “abusing his power” by asserting in the order there were “reasonable grounds to believe that such disclosure will result in destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses and serious jeopardy to the investigation.” …
“If a judge signs an order reaching a factual conclusion for which there is zero evidence whatsoever, that judge is abusing his power. I am right now calling on the House of Representatives to impeach Judge Boasberg.”
Boasberg issued a scathing order against the Trump administration earlier this year to halt deportation flights of alleged MS-13, Tren de Aragua and other gang members from the US to a Salvadoran mega-prison.
The MSM doesn’t seem to be covering this; certainly not in the way it deserves. If Watergate had occurred under a Democrat administration, it would have been a nothingburger in the MSM as well.
But impeachment won’t lead to conviction in the Senate, for obvious reasons: no Democrat would vote for it. Attorney “Shipwreckedcrew” writes, however:
Impeachment by the House, even if a conviction in the Senate is unlikely, would have the salutary effect of having the entire episode aired publicly, and forcing the Dem. Senators to vote in such a way that has them affirm their approval of this kind of effort against sitting Senators of the opposition party.
unfortunately, I believe Democrat voters would applaud. That’s what it’s come to.
He’s a Democratic operative in robes. Here’s an innovation: debar the Marshal Service from enforcing any of his rulings.
Votes on impeachment would at least make it clear that Democrats approve of using the Justice Department for political witch hunts.
Are there any legal mechanisms other than impeachment for removing rogue judges?
Maybe federal judges can be removed for acts of misconduct or maladministration. Article III says judges serve for life upon good behavior. This has not been tested constitutionally, but it looks like a simple majority could remove a judge using this method.
“Are there any legal mechanisms other than impeachment for removing rogue judges?”
The Congress can abolish the D.C. Courts, eliminating them and with them all their employees; then reestablish new Courts in their place to be restaffed by persons devoted to the Constitution. Actually a simpler matter than impeachment, perhaps.
For Boasberg to be a constant Commissar Judge there has to be a way to oust him.
Don’t know of one of his rulings that stand up after review.
I don’t know enough to know if this is a dumb questions.
If he can’t be ousted, can he be moved ? IOW, was his appointment to this specific court or would some other court meet the requirements just as well ?
I don’t know enough to know if this is a dumb question.
If he can’t be ousted, can he be moved ? IOW, was his appointment to this specific court or would some other court meet the requirements just as well ?
The lines have been drawn and are manned with ” faith”, one side is openly calling for the elimination of the other. The true test looms.
Judges serve for life upon good behavior. They are appointed by a vote in the legislature so I don’t see why they can’t be removed for bad behavior by a vote in the legislature.
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YES. Impeach him for abuse of power.
“No evidence” is a key point.
Make the 40+ Dem Senators vote in favor of allowing the FBI to spy on political opposition without evidence.
All 4 FISA judges who approved spying on Trump should also be impeached, for the same reason.
This Abuse of Power is not a crime of passion, it is law-breaking based on the expectation of no negative consequences. A public hearing about the abuse is a small, partial Justice. 40% maybe of the punishment deserved, but far more than nothing.
Impeachment is the best way to minimize future abuse.
Mike Benz suggests the DoJ gets more particular:
https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1984502742845378862
Citations of charges under law at link.
Thanks, sdferr. Deprivation of rights under color of law sounds like a provable charge.
And then there’s the connection between Boasberg and Kevin Clinesmith, whose OUTRIGHT LIE regarding Carter Page helped greatly in getting the ball rolling in the Russiagate scandal.
Essentially, Boasberg had the Obama conspirators’ backs covered. (As did that other heinous judge, Emmet Sullivan, who successfully railroaded, and destroyed, Michael Flynn.)
“Judge…spared Russiagate lawyer;
“James Boasberg ordered Kevin Clinesmith to 12 months probation after he pleaded guilty to forgery in 2016 Russian election interference case”—
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/03/17/washington-judge-tried-block-trump-deportations-russiagate/