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This should be good- Judge vs Trump on Venezuela deportations to also hear Signal lawsuit

Old_JoeOld_Joe
edited March 26 in Off-Topic
Following are excerpts from a current report in The Guardian:

US president had previously called for the impeachment of James Boasberg after the judge blocked his deportation flights
The US judge set to hear a new lawsuit over the Signal fiasco is the same judge whom Donald Trump has argued should be impeached for blocking him from using wartime powers to deport Venezuelan migrants. James Boasberg, a district judge in Washington, was assigned on Wednesday to a lawsuit alleging Trump officials violated federal record-keeping laws by using a Signal group chat to discuss looming military action against Yemen’s Houthis.

The revelation that highly sensitive attack plans were shared on a commercial messaging app, possibly on personal mobile phones, has triggered outrage in Washington and calls from Democrats that members of Trump’s national security team be fired. The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday by a liberal-leaning government watchdog group, American Oversight, which argued that officials failed to implement measures to prevent the automatic deletion of messages in the Signal chat, in violation of their duties under the Federal Records Act.

The lawsuit seeks a court order declaring their actions unlawful and an injunction requiring Hegseth and other Trump administration officials to preserve records and recover any deleted materials to the extent possible.

The administration has not responded to the lawsuit. But officials have said no classified information was shared on Signal, which White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called an approved app loaded on to government phones at the Pentagon, Department of State and Central Intelligence Agency.

The case was assigned to Boasberg, the chief judge of the US district court for the District of Columbia, through the court’s usual random assignment process, a court spokesperson said. The White House and US Department of Justice did not respond to requests for comment.

Trump last week called for Boasberg’s impeachment. That prompted a rare rebuke from the US supreme court’s chief justice, John Roberts, who said in a statement that “impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision”, which can be appealed.

Republican lawmakers have filed resolutions seeking the impeachment of Boasberg and five other judges who have stymied Trump’s agenda, as the White House has continued to ramp up attacks on the judiciary.
Comment: No word yet on any thoughts from Chief Justice Roberts. If he's not already a drinking man he likely soon will be.

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