Brandon Gill hints at impeachment articles for Judge Boasberg

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Brandon Gill hints at impeachment articles for Judge Boasberg

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/brandon-gill-hints-impeachment-articles-judge-boasberg

Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, is drafting articles of impeachment against U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who has been at the center of the Trump administration's efforts to invoke the Alien Enemies Act against Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

"Working on it," Gill wrote in response to Sen. Ted Cruz's, R-Texas, calls for the House to impeach Boasberg.

Cruz, for his part, pointed to Boasberg's sign-off of an effort to spy on Republican senators.
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Specifically, Cruz stated that Boasberg issued an order that he not be informed of the probe of his phone records.

My emphasis. Boasberg's partisan approval of the spying on Rs should, of itself, be grounds for overturning every ruling he has made wrt Trump and any other R. Boasberg is a dedicated partisan actor.

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The 'Arctic Frost' Spying Scandal Gets So Much Worse, and It Leads Back to Infamous Judge Boasberg

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/10/30/the-artic-frost-spying-scandal-gets-so-much-worse-and-it-leads-back-to-infamous-judge-boasberg-n2195657

As RedState reported, Republican senators held a press conference on Wednesday, and what they revealed about the Arctic Frost scandal was incredibly disturbing. Describing it as "worse than Watergate," Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) presented evidence that 92 different conservative organizations or individuals were targeted by Jack Smith and the Biden-era Department of Justice.

All of this was done under the guise of going after President Donald Trump over the 2020 election, and eight GOP senators also had their phone records subpoenaed, among other intrusions. That's where things get even crazier. According to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), infamous left-wing Judge James Boasberg was near the heart of this scandal, helping the Biden administration cover its tracks.
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Per Cruz, Boasberg claimed that the Texas senator would destroy evidence if he were given legal notice of the subpoena of his phone records. The judge further asserted that national security would be imperiled in the process.

That is a ridiculous overreach. In no way would national security have been harmed because the investigation had nothing to do with national security. It was a ginned-up witch hunt targeting Americans. There was no actual evidentiary predicate to spy on Cruz and the other GOP senators involved, nor anyone else, for that matter. Instead, the Biden administration sensed an opportunity to put its political opponents on ice going into future elections, and they took it. That it didn't work out the way they had hoped doesn't make the situation any less serious.

Looks like Boasberg was an active participant in this partisan violation of constitutional rights.

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6 Attorneys Who Signed Arctic Frost Subpoenas Are No Longer At DOJ

https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/30/6-attorneys-who-signed-arctic-frost-subpoenas-are-no-longer-at-doj/

The 197 subpoenas, issued to financial institutions, consulting firms, conservative organizations and PACs, individuals, and technology companies, were part of Smith’s dragnet searching for incriminating evidence to bring down President Donald Trump and his supporters during the 2024 presidential campaign. The DOJ investigators even surveilled Sen. Ted Cruz’s office landline, senators revealed in a press conference on Wednesday.

All of the six attorneys who signed the subpoenas are no longer employed by the DOJ, The Federalist has learned.

The assistant special counsel who signed the majority of the subpoenas, Maria Vento, is no longer employed by the DOJ and has not been for at least a few months, a source familiar with the situation told The Federalist. ... Her name appears on more than 100 of the subpoenas released on Wednesday.

The source also told The Federalist that Erin B. Pulice, who signed roughly two dozen of the subpoenas as an assistant special counsel, ... .

Brooke C. Watson, who operated as Smith’s assistant special counsel and signed 18 different subpoenas in Wednesday’s document trove, was dismissed by Attorney General Pam Bondi in August. She has since become a partner at Dynamis LLP.

Also fired is Matthew Burke, who joined Smith’s team as assistant special counsel in 2022. ...

The timing of Maria Vento's canning suggests that the illegal actions these attorneys participated in have been under investigation for quite a while. For all Trump's reputation as a verbal loose cannon, reality appears to be that he says less than and holds back on, time-wise, what he knows.

These lawyers need orange jumpsuits and a few years' stays in the GreyBar Hotel.

[SVPete]

Jack Smith ‘Arctic Frost’ Subpoena Targeted Nonprofit that Didn’t Even Exist on Jan. 6, 2021

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/cnsnews/craig-bannister/2025/10/30/jack-smith-arctic-frost-subpoena-targeted-firm-didnt-even

One of the more than 400 Republican/conservative entities targeted for covert surveillance by former special counsel Jack Smith’s 197 subpoenas didn’t even exist at the time that Smith was supposedly investigating.

The massive breadth, false pretense and apparent political agenda of Smith’s investigation were exposed Wednesday, as The National Review reported:

The Biden-era FBI's ‘Arctic Frost’ investigation into President Trump and the broader GOP's role in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot was more wide-ranging than previously known, according to newly released documents showing the bureau issued nearly 200 subpoenas targeting more than 400 Republican entities and individuals as part of the probe.

One of those entities, a conservative nonprofit named America First Legal (AFL), posted news and an image of the subpoena targeting it on social media:
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AFL then followed up with a post explaining that there was no reason for Smith and Biden’s FBI to surveil it regarding the January 6 riot and its alleged election interference scheme they claimed to be investigating:

REMINDER: America First Legal DID NOT EXIST on January 6, 2021. But Jack Smith subpoenaed us anyway. Because this was NEVER about democracy — it was ALWAYS a political witch hunt.

January 6, 2021 was a fake pretext. This was entirely about spying on people and organizations LIEden & minions perceived to be "enemies".