Republicans plan to impeach Judge Boasberg over senators’ subpoenas

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00:00House Republicans want to impeach the federal judge who approved secret subpoenas for the cell

00:04phone records of sitting members of Congress. This guy's got to be out of office. This is

00:08ridiculous what's going on. Lawmakers contend Judge James Bosberg approved the subpoenas

00:13so special counsel Jack Smith could entrap Republicans during the investigation into

00:18the 2020 presidential election. Now they hope to remove him from his lifetime appointment

00:23on the D.C. district court. He has taken it on his own to be a hyper-partisan judge

00:29going after Republicans, signing off on subpoenas that are unlawful, and he signed off on them

00:35just to get his political rivals. This is why he needs to be impeached.

00:42If Judge Bosberg's name sounds familiar, it's because he made headlines earlier this year when

00:47he blocked President Trump from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged gang members who

00:53are in the country illegally. Bosberg ordered the Trump administration to turn around deportation

00:58flights that had already taken off. That led Congressman Brandon Gill to introduce an

01:03article of impeachment against Bosberg for abuse of power. It didn't go anywhere, but now

01:08Gill is expected to bring forward a new impeachment resolution over the subpoenas.

01:12The subpoenas that Bosberg signed were part of the Arctic Frost investigation, which ultimately

01:18served as the basis for the criminal case against Donald Trump in which he was charged with trying

01:23to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The subpoenas required telecommunications

01:28companies to hand over what's called tolling data, which shows who the senators called along

01:34with the date, time, and location the conversation took place. The subpoenas targeted nine sitting

01:39senators and one member of the House of Representatives, all Republicans. Senator Ron Johnson is calling

01:45on the House to hold a series of public impeachment hearings. Johnson acknowledged that if the House

01:50impeaches Bosberg, he would not be convicted in the Senate and removed from office because

01:54Republicans don't have enough votes in that chamber. The most important thing here is not

01:58necessarily the verdict. The most important thing is exposing exactly what happened and a House

02:05hearing and Senate hearings would be a really good way of doing that. Special counsel Jack Smith

02:10indicted Donald Trump twice. He charged Trump with mishandling classified material and trying to

02:15overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Those cases never went to trial because

02:21the classified documents case was thrown out and the election case couldn't get to trial before

02:26Trump won re-election. According to a report in the New York Times, Smith is prepared to fight back

02:31if he's indicted or targeted by Trump's Department of Justice. The report states Smith welcomes the

02:36opportunity to present all the evidence he collected against Trump in a public courtroom.

02:41I'm Ray Bogan for Straight Hour News. For more unbiased reporting straight from our nation's capital,

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