Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., introduced legislation on Monday to remove D.C. District Court Judge James Boasberg under the good behavior clause mandated by the U.S. Constitution over his court rulings involving an executive order issued by President Donald Trump.
“We cannot stand by while activist judges who incorrectly believe they have more authority than the duly-elected President of the United States, impose their own political agenda on the American people,” Biggs said in an official statement.
“I have cosponsored resolutions to impeach Judge Boasberg. His removal from office via impeachment, however, will undoubtedly be blocked by Democrats in the Senate, since it requires a two-thirds majority. My resolution, on the other hand, asserts, pursuant to Article III, Section 1, that rogue judges may be removed the same way we confirm them — by a simple majority.”
In March, Boasberg blocked the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act, which the president invoked as justification for the rapid deportation of members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang. Boasberg has called the actions of the Trump White House “incredibly troubling and problematic” adding the administration engaged in “an unprecedented and expanded use of an act that has been used … in the War of 1812, World War I and World War II, when there was no question there was a declaration of war and who the enemy was.”
Boasberg and Trump’s Department of Justice have since engaged in a legal back and forth since with the administration claiming there was no way of obeying the judge’s orders once the deportation flights were in the air. “No court has the power to compel the President to return them, and there is no sound basis to read the Court’s minute order as requiring that unprecedented step,” the DOJ argued last week.
On Friday, the Trump administration requested the U.S. Supreme Court intervene and allow it to continue deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.
“Judge Boasberg abused his judicial authority for political gain and is not in compliance with the constitutional Good Behavior Clause. He must not be permitted to remain in his position. Congress has a duty to fulfill the promises we’ve made to the American people, including defending the President’s authority to enforce our laws,” Biggs added.
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