‘I’m thrilled to see the speaker get on board’: Mike Johnson gets behind GOP effort to remove biased judges
House Speaker Mike Johnson recently has endorsed the idea of Congress impeaching and removing biased federal judges, and the endorsement has provided new impetus among House members to pursue that course of action.
Rep. Brandon Gill’s resolution against Judge James Boasberg immediately gained new additional supporters.
“We’re going to do everything we can to push that forward. I mean the reality is that Boasberg has been acting as an agent of the Democrat Party for quite some time now,” Gill said. “I’m thrilled to see the speaker get on board. I think his leadership will be crucial in getting this passed.”
Johnson’s comment came during his weekly House GOP leadership press conference.
“I just spoke to him on the House floor, and he’s still in support, so we’re going to push to move forward on at least one,” Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., told Fox News Digital.
Ogles was part of the push last year to impeach judges who have exhibited biased, or extra-judicial, behavior.
Boasberg, for example, was an integral part of the Democrats’ anti-Trump agenda during his first term, and since then had issued extreme rulings on immigration cases involving the Trump administration, once ordering jets carrying deported illegal aliens to turn around mid-air and return the criminals to the U.S.
He also signed off on documents that allowed partisan special counsel Jack Smith to seize the telephone records of members of Congress as part of his Democrat lawfare against Trump.
Other judges whose behavior has been suspect include John Bates for blocking a Trump executive order targeting transgender recognition under federal law and Theodore Chuang for his ruling to stop a crackdown on foreign aid by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
While the agendas were launched last year, they didn’t advance, and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., offered an alternative plan to limit district judges’ ability to issue nationwide injunctions. The House adopted the bill but the Senate didn’t address it.
According to a Fox report, Johnson, on the question of impeachment, now says, “I’m for it.”
“I’d be all for it,” Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., said in an interview with Fox.
Specifically Boasberg, he said. “I think he’s one of the most forthright judicial activists on the bench and that’s not why he was put on the bench.”
Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said, “We had an agenda. We didn’t want to be distracted with potential impeachment, but I think now, as we’re realizing things are not getting better, the people around the nation are expecting us to hold this judge and others like him accountable.”