The federal judge tasked with deciding the Signal group chat case “cannot be objective,” Attorney General Pam Bondi stated Thursday, adding that “many judges need to be removed.”
The appointment of U.S. District Judge James Boasberg to hear the Signal case, in which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President Vance, and other officials discussed a military strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen, was described by Bondi as a “wild coincidence against Donald Trump and our administration.”
The chat was accidentally shared with Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, which resulted in its public disclosure.
In a different case involving deported Venezuelan migrants who were allegedly members of the Tren de Aragua gang, Judge Boasberg was the judge who decided against the Trump administration.
Boasberg had maintained that for the courts to review the situation, planes should be reversed to return those who are being deported.
Trump and other administration officials have criticized Boasberg for the issue and have even demanded that he be removed from office. U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts rebuked that, stating that when there are disagreements with court decisions, appeals should be used rather than impeachments.
“He shouldn’t be on any of these cases. He cannot be objective. He’s made that crystal clear,” Bondi said of Boasberg.
President Trump has also slammed Boasberg, recently calling the Democrat-appointed judge “disgraceful.”
“How disgraceful is it that ‘Judge’ James Boasberg has just been given a fourth ‘Trump Case,’ something which is, statistically, IMPOSSIBLE,” the president wrote in a post on Truth Social.
Boasberg is now overseeing four lawsuits about the second Trump administration, including the addition of a Signal-related lawsuit against important Trump officials. He was given each case at random.
Due to the Signal chat, American Oversight, a watchdog group, filed a lawsuit. According to the group’s submission, Trump officials violated the Federal Records Act by neglecting to preserve Signal messages about the recent attack on Houthi rebels in Yemen.
In her Fox News remarks Thursday, Bondi said, “You know, these judges are taking personal attacks to it, at many of the Cabinet secretaries. And these judges across the country — and again, they think they have authority, but it’s going to be short-lived, because these cases are going to get to the Supreme Court very fast.”
“We’re doing everything we can,” she added.
During her daily show last week, former Fox News host Megyn Kelly expressed her belief that U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts could be in a precarious position, depending on his decision regarding President Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to swiftly deport illegal migrant gang members.
After a lower court judge ruled Trump’s use of the centuries-old law was improper — a decision upheld by a federal appellate court on Thursday — the administration filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court. Kelly indicated on her SiriusXM program that Roberts may be the one Republican-appointed judge who would side against the president.
“John Roberts, above all, knows if he hands down a ruling telling the commander-in-chief that the nine men and women in black robes have the final say over what is perceived as a military threat unleashed on us by a foreign government, he’s on the thinnest of possible ice,” the host said. “He’s so obsessed with the court. I just can’t see him wanting to do it.”
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s temporary halt on deportation flights that the administration used to deport members of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to a maximum security facility in El Salvador.
Her guest, political analyst Mark Halperin, said that he believes the Supreme Court decision could favor the president even though, on occasion, Roberts votes against Republicans.
On Friday, Boasberg extended his temporary restraining order to halt deportation flights. The order was set to expire on March 29, but Boasberg extended it to April 12, “or until further order of the Court,” Newsweek reported.
“The continued interference by an unelected activist judge in the foreign policy of the United States is a clear obstruction of President Trump’s constitutional authority and threatens the safety and security of all Americans,” a spokesperson for the Department of Justice told Newsweek.
On Thursday, after Boasberg was assigned a lawsuit regarding a journalist being added to a Signal chat with high-ranking defense officials, Trump lashed out at the judge.
“How disgraceful is it that ‘Judge’ James Boasberg has just been given a fourth ‘Trump Case,’ something which is, statistically, IMPOSSIBLE. There is no way for a Republican, especially a TRUMP REPUBLICAN, to win before him,” the president said on his TruthSocial account the day before Boasberg extended his order halting deportation flights.
“He is Highly Conflicted, not only in his hatred of me — Massive Trump Derangement Syndrome! — but also, because of disqualifying family conflicts. Boasberg, who is the Chief Judge of the D.C. District Court, seems to be grabbing the ‘Trump Cases’ all to himself, even though it is not supposed to happen that way,” the president said.
