Articles of impeachment filed against Judge James Boasberg after allowing Biden's special counsel to spy on GOP lawmakers

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Happening now:

Boasberg has been assigned a number of high-level cases in recent years, ruling multiple times in favor of efforts aimed at stopping President Trump or his policies.

In June, Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) called the number of major rulings assigned to Boasberg a "statistical impossibility."

On Tuesday, Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) filed formal articles of impeachment in the House against Boasberg, accusing him of "high crimes."

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Gill's resolution accused Boasberg of one count of abuse of power, according to text obtained first by Fox News Digital.

'Ignoring his responsibility to wield the power of his office in a constitutional manner, Chief Judge Boasberg granted Special Counsel John L. Smith authorization to issue frivolous nondisclosure orders in furtherance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation project codenamed ARCTIC FROST,' the text said.

'These nondisclosure orders covered Members of Congress who were acting in accord with their legislative duties and privileges guaranteed by Article 1, Section 6, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution.'

The redacted Arctic Frost documents were made public late last month by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. They included subpoenas of phone records for 10 senators and one House lawmaker, and gag orders sent to Verizon and AT&T instructing them not to notify lawmakers of the subpoena. Verizon complied, but AT&T did not.

In his most prominent case where he ruled against Trump, Boasberg blocked the president's plans to deport Venezuelan gangsters to El Salvador.

Boasberg was also assigned to the case of J6 rioter Ray Epps, the most prominent face at the Capitol that day in 2021. Despite Epps being on camera multiple times trying to push the crowds into unlawful action, leading some to speculate that he was an agent provocateur, Boasberg gave him a slap on the wrist compared to many J6 defendants.

After being introduced, the articles of impeachment will go to the GOP-controlled House Judiciary Committee, which will then vote on whether to send it to the full House.

If all of the Republicans in the House can agree that Boasberg needs to be removed, it would then go to the Senate, with a trial overseen by Chief Justice John Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court. Some GOP senators, including Ted Cruz (who was spied on due to Boasberg's ruling), have vocally called for an impeachment and trial.

Only then, among the narrowest of margins at the end of multi-level bureaucratic red tape, could Boasberg be removed from power.

I guess we'll see!

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