cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27416626
The federal judge Republicans want to impeach for blocking deportation flights to El Salvador will handle a new lawsuit alleging Trump officials violated federal law by discussing an attack on Yemen in a Signal chat.
Expect wild bleating from Republicans to impeach this guy and/or get rid of Federal courts entirely to reach a fever pitch.
It looks like Trump already did that.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/22/politics/who-is-judge-james-boasberg/index.html
In a series of social media posts, Trump smeared Boasberg as a “Radical Left Lunatic Judge” and called for his impeachment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Boasberg
James Emanuel “Jeb” Boasberg (born 1963)[2] is an American lawyer and jurist who is the chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Appointed by President George W. Bush, he served as a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia from 2002 to 2011, before Barack Obama nominated him to the US district court for the District of Columbia. Chief Justice John G. Roberts appointed him to the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) in 2014, and he served as the presiding judge of the FISC from 2020 to 2021. In 2020, he was appointed to the United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court and designated chief judge.
If he’s “radical left”, no doubt this is all part of some sort of grand conspiracy between President Bush, President Obama, and conservative Chief Justice John G. Roberts to infiltrate communists into high positions in the government.
Radical Left Lunatic Judge
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Appointed by President George W. Bush
For fuck’s sake.
Actual radical left: Abolish capitalism through violence
Trump’s radical left: People that don’t like storing classified information in country club bathrooms or on personal devices.
The people he’s talking to are incredibly gullible.
What a lovely coincidence.
I am just gloating in delight from this news. They pissed him off once already by ignore his orders. Oh boy he’s going to make shit airtight this time.
Yeah, ignoring a judges specific orders and claiming that you didn’t, threatening a judge, that sort of stuff doesn’t go over well.
What makes you say that? It has went over perfectly well for the Trump team, and it was honestly a huge success for them in legitimizing this push for supreme executive power.
I’m sure they’ll respect his judgement this time, just as much as they did with the deportation flights.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-deportation-flights-el-salvador-doubles-down/
This judge will be kicked off the bench by repubs any day now.
…and then somehow mysteriously the case will end up in judge Cannon’s court.
Kicked off a window ledge.
5 floors up in a hotel, you say?
If I was this Judge I’d be requesting a 24x7 security detail from the US Marshals.
I am pretty sure that that’s up to Trump’s discretion to grant and am skeptical that Trump would grant it.
Bolton, national-security hawk who played a key role in shaping U.S. foreign policy during the first Trump administration, has continued to require Secret Service protection due to threats from Iran, even after leaving the White House in 2019.
After Bolton was fired by Trump, the president terminated his security detail. However, former President Joe Biden reinstated the protection upon taking office in 2021.
The purported plot against Bolton in 2021, one of the most thoroughly documented alleged assassination attempts, is part of what U.S. prosecutors and former government officials describe as ongoing efforts by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. These efforts aim to target Trump-era officials responsible for a 2020 U.S. airstrike that killed Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Guard’s elite Quds Force.
“The Justice Department filed criminal charges in 2022 against an Iranian Revolutionary Guard official for attempting to hire a hitman to target me. That threat still exists, as shown by the recent arrest of someone trying to orchestrate President Trump’s assassination. The American people can decide for themselves which president made the right call,” Bolton said in his statement to CNN.
On Tuesday, CNN reported that former National Security Adviser John Bolton expressed frustration and disappointment over former President Donald Trump’s decision to revoke his Secret Service protection just hours after he returned to the White House.
“I am disappointed but not surprised that President Trump has made this decision,” Bolton said in a Tuesday statement to Newsweek. “Despite my criticisms of President Biden’s national security policies, he made the decision to extend Secret Service protection to me in 2021.”
Bolton has a hostile nation-state actively trying to assassinate him for his work for Trump. Trump pulled his protection because he doesn’t like him.
Judge Boasberg has ruled against Trump in one major case and I imagine will most-likely do so in at least a second.
