‘No More Delays’: GOP Senators Demand D.C. Circuit Chief Suspend Boasberg Amid Impeachment Efforts
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‘No more delays. Judge Boasberg must be suspended immediately,’ Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., wrote.
Half a dozen Republican senators are calling on the leading judge of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to suspend a rogue district judge as efforts to impeach him get underway.
On Monday, Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution Chair Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., and five of his GOP colleagues sent a letter to D.C. Circuit Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan asking that D.C. District Judge James Boasberg be “administratively suspended pending formal impeachment by the House of Representatives and, if impeached, an impeachment trial by the Senate.” The letter’s other signatories include Sens. Mike Lee of Utah, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, and Bill Hagerty of Tennessee.
“No more delays. Judge Boasberg must be suspended immediately,” Schmitt wrote in a series of X posts. “We cannot tolerate rogue, self-professed prejudicial judges ruling on our nation’s most important cases.”
In their letter to Srinivasan, an Obama appointee, the GOP senators referenced Articles of Impeachment filed against Boasberg earlier this month by Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas. The filing accused Boasberg, of “[i]gnoring his responsibility to wield the power of his office in a constitutional manner.”
The letter and impeachment articles cite allegedly improper actions by Boasberg — most notably his role in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s anti-Trump “Arctic Frost” probe.
As The Federalist previously reported, Smith’s expansive lawfare involved the seizure of several Republican senators’ phone records. At a press conference last month, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, noted how Jack Smith sent a subpoena to AT&T to obtain his phone records and how Boasberg “issued an order to AT&T and signed that order prohibiting AT&T from informing [him] of this subpoena for at least one year.”