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

00:04cell phone records of sitting members of Congress.

00:07This guy's got to be out of office. This is ridiculous what's going on.

00:10Lawmakers contend Judge James Bosberg approved the subpoenas so Special Counsel Jack Smith

00:15could entrap Republicans during the investigation into the 2020 presidential election.

00:20Now they hope to remove him from his lifetime appointment on the D.C. District Court.

00:24He has taken it on his own to be a hyper-partisan judge going after Republicans,

00:31signing off on subpoenas that are unlawful, and he signed off on them just to get his political rivals.

00:38This is why he needs to be impeached.

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

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

00:52who are in the country illegally.

00:55Bosberg ordered the Trump administration to turn around deportation flights that had already taken off.

01:01That led Congressman Brandon Gill to introduce an article of impeachment against Bosberg for abuse of power.

01:06It didn't go anywhere, but now Gill 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,

01:17which ultimately served as the basis for the criminal case against Donald Trump in which he was charged

01:23with trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

01:26The subpoenas required telecommunications companies to hand over what's called tolling data,

01:31which shows who the senators called along with the date, time, and location the conversation took place.

01:38The subpoenas targeted nine sitting senators and one member of the House of Representatives, all Republicans.

01:43Senator Ron Johnson is calling on the House to hold a series of public impeachment hearings.

01:48Johnson acknowledged that if the House impeaches Bosberg, he would not be convicted in the Senate

01:53and removed from office because Republicans don't have enough votes in that chamber.

01:57The most important thing here is not necessarily the verdict.

02:00The most important thing is exposing exactly what happened,

02:04and a House hearing and Senate hearings would be a really good way of doing that.

02:09Special counsel Jack Smith indicted Donald Trump twice.

02:12He charged Trump with mishandling classified material and trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

02:19Those cases never went to trial because the classified documents case was thrown out

02:23and the election case couldn't get to trial before Trump won re-election.

02:27According to a report in the New York Times,

02:29Smith is prepared to fight back if he's indicted or targeted by Trump's Department of Justice.

02:34The report states Smith welcomes the opportunity to present all the evidence he collected against Trump in a public courtroom.

02:42I'm Ray Bogan for Straight Hour News.

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