Won't Get Fooled Again: GOP Moves To Impeach Judges Trying To Stop Trump Agenda

Posted • February 18, 2025: Even Margaret Brennan probably knows that an activist district judge in a Rhode Island backwater can't stop a president from conducting his Article II powers. And so, this time, congressional Republicans aren't falling for black robe tricknology and are moving to impeach two judges whose hackneyed and conflicted rulings have temporarily stopped President Trump's agenda. Trump has vowed to obey their rulings until these decisions are inevitably overturned, if not by garden-variety federal appeals courts, then by the U.S. Supreme Court. Someday. In an effort to stop the judicial clown show, the GOP wants to make a point that an activist Democrat judge who can't write an understandable order has no business on the federal bench. It also wants to make the point that a judge who helps oversee his own NGO shouldn't be making decisions about President Trump halting payments to NGOs. Seems reasonable.

GOP congressional representatives have made moves to impeach two judges who ruled to halt President Donald Trump's agenda. The overseers of this judicial interference are Norm Eisen, the man who brought you the Letitia James New York lawfare show that got boffo finger snaps by the Broadway left, and Andrew Weissmann, who was in charge of the baseless Russia! Russia! Russia! lawfare against Trump. Both sit on the MSNBC court of clowns. Matt's excellent column about this "judicial oligarchy," notes that, "U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer... has barred members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and even the Treasury secretary from accessing crucial payment and data systems—another blatant example of the judiciary eroding executive authority on behalf of the resistance." Engelmayer's decision isn't a crazy judicial opinion or anything.

Legal analyst Margot Cleveland says that even before one even gets to Judge Engelmayer's poorly reasoned temporary restraining order, the case brought by 14 Democrat state attorneys general has a "fatal flaw." By her reckoning, the plaintiffs "utterly lack standing to challenge DOGE and the Treasury Department’s decision to grant read-only access to select members of that executive agency’s team. And without standing, there is no basis to bring a lawsuit, much less to justify the TRO," she told Fox News Digital. Gee, that seems like it might be a problem. See Murthy v. Missouri for how important "standing" is. Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) will introduce articles of impeachment against Engelmayer. —— Rep. Eli Crane @RepEliCrane: “Last night, I joined Matt Gaetz to discuss articles of impeachment filed against partisan judges by Rep. Andrew Clyde and myself. We also reviewed the current state of the reconciliation process. President Donald Trump is dismantling the administrative state, and Congress needs to back him up.”

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) is bringing impeachment charges against Rhode Island Federal District Court Judge John McConnell, who ruled on a case involving cutting spending. […] morally bankrupt Planned Parenthood and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Plus, and this is controlling in this argument, the good judge ran his own NGO called Crossroads Rhode Island. He now sits on its board of directors where they count all the money from the feds. America First Legal counted it too. The NGO raked in $128 million over the past 18 years. 🚨 Judge McConnell, the federal judge blocking Trump’s spending freeze, has been on the board of Crossroads Rhode Island for 18 years — a nonprofit that has taken $128M in government funding during that time. Now, after his ruling to keep federal funds flowing, his nonprofit stands to receive millions more. Judge McConnell must recuse himself IMMEDIATELY. 🚨 FEDERAL JUDGE McCONNELL MUST RECUSE HIMSELF IMMEDIATELY.

AFL has uncovered a major potential conflict of interest for Judge John McConnell, Chief Judge of the federal district court of Rhode Island, who halted President Trump’s temporary spending freeze. https://x.com/America1stLegal/status/1891226933481877590/photo/2 —— Apparently, this obvious conflict of interest wasn't divulged by the judge. (…)

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