Article originally appeared on www.westernjournal.com.
Rep. Brandon Gill, a Republican from Texas, introduced articles of impeachment against United States District Judge James Boasberg, who tried to stop the Trump administration from deporting Tren de Aragua gang members over the weekend.
President Donald Trump, who recently struck a deal with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele to detain some violent illegal aliens in the Latin American country’s notorious but highly effective CECOT prison, deported a few hundred Tren de Aragua gang members to the facility on Saturday.
But Boasberg tried to block the move, even verbally ordering the administration to turn the plane around midair.
Gill therefore presented his articles of impeachment to the House, accusing Boasberg of “high crimes and misdemeanors” in the form of pursuing “political gain” while blocking Trump’s “constitutional prerogatives and enforcement of the rule of law.”
The resolution said that the commander-in-chief has “broad authority over the …
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