'Certain to fail': Mike Johnson has a new 'headache' thanks to Trump

19 March

House Speaker Mike Johnson at the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 15, 2024 (Maxim Elramsisy/Shutterstock.com)

President Donald Trump on Momday got a stern rebuke from U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts after calling for the impeachment of U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who temporarily blocked the deportation of Venezuelan nationals allegedly associated with the gang Tren de Aragua. But Boasberg isn't the only federal judge who Trump and others in the MAGA movement would like to impeach.

In the U.S. House of Representatives, some MAGA Republicans are calling for the impeachment of judges who are blocking Trump's executive orders. And according to Politico reporters Rachael Bade and Meredith Lee Hill, their efforts are "quickly turning into the latest headache for Speaker Mike Johnson."

Bade and Hill, in an article published on March 19, report, "The push to remove jurists who have sought to halt Trump's firings of federal employees, access to sensitive government systems and deportations of alleged foreign gang members has virtually no chance of succeeding, given the 67-vote requirement in the Senate for removal. But it is nonetheless quickly turning into a major distraction for House GOP leaders after Trump himself called on social media Tuesday, (March 18), for the Washington-based judge who ordered the grounding of some deportation flights to be 'IMPEACHED!!!' It threatens to sap political capital and antagonize key GOP blocs just as Johnson is hoping to put Trump’s sweeping domestic policy agenda into overdrive."

Far-right Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) is among the MAGA Republicans who is joining Trump in calling for Boasberg's impeachment. But others in the GOP consider the impeachment push a waste of time.

Rep. Don Bacon told Politico, "I don’t support it. If their behavior was criminal, that is different."

Another House Republican, interviewed on condition of anonymity, told Politico, "I do not support impeaching a sitting judge based solely on a decision with which I disagree."

Meanwhile, in the U.S. Senate, John Cornyn is equally critical of the impeachment push — telling Politico, "You don't impeach judges who make decisions you disagree with, because that happens all the time. What you do is you appeal, and if you're right, then you're going to win on appeal."

Bade and Hill note, "Impeachment proceedings, even when they don't involve presidents, can be time- and resource-intensive affairs…. Publicly, key GOP leaders are not closing the door on potential impeachments…. But privately, there is dread inside Johnson's leadership circle about the prospect of having to pursue messy, certain-to-fail impeachments that could ultimately backfire on the GOP's razor-thin majority.

Read the full Politico article at this link.

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