GOP rep, Elon Musk push to impeach judge who scuttled Trumps order to rapidly deport Venezuelan gangbangers
A federal judge who temporarily blocked President Trump’s bid to rapidly deport Venezuelan gang members via the 18th century Alien Enemies Act is facing an impeachment push — including by Elon Musk.Shortly after the judge’s temporary order was issued, Rep.Brandon Gill (R-Texas) announced plans to file articles of impeachment against the judge, drawing praise from Musk.“Necessary,” Musk wrote on X after Gill revealed his plans to introduce articles of impeachment against the judge.
Earlier in the day Saturday, US District Judge James Boasberg imposed a 14-day restraining order on Trump’s ability to use the 1798-era Alien Enemies Act to bypass the traditional immigration and criminal avenues in order to rapidly deport members of the notorious Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua.Boasberg, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2011, further ordered “any plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States however that is accomplished.”But the order already came too late for some suspected gang members.On Sunday, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele posted dramatic video footage showing more than 250 Tren de Aragua and MS-13 members who were sent to the Central American country.
They will be held at the country’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), as part of a deal Bukele struck with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.The judge’s temporary order came mere hours after Trump took executive action to invoke the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act and begin targeting members of the Venezuelan gang.Musk, 53, has previously groused about federal judges who have held up or scuttled various actions by the Trump administration, particularly rulings that have hamstrung the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) efforts to root out waste.Gill, 31 is a freshman congressman who recently championed a petition to deport Rep.Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) — despite her being an American cit...