Lawmaker files articles of impeachment against SDNY judge who blocked DOGE from accessing sensitive government data [View all]
Source: Law & Crime
Feb 19th, 2025, 5:38 pm
A Republican member of the House on Wednesday introduced articles of impeachment against a federal judge who recently barred DOGE staffers from accessing sensitive Treasury Department data.
Early on the morning of Feb. 8, Manhattan-based U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer issued a temporary restraining order blocking such access and requiring all the relevant Elon Musk-aligned employees to “destroy” any copies of documents that were previously downloaded.
Reaction online was swift and fierce – with numerous allies of President Donald Trump calling for Engelmayer’s impeachment. Now, those calls have been answered. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, a Republican from Wisconsin, filed House Resolution 143, which accuses the judge of “high crimes and misdemeanors” over the temporary restraining order. The bill was subsequently referred to the House Judiciary Committee.
“Paul Engelmayer, as a judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, engaged in judicial misconduct when he halted President Donald J. Trump’s Executive order establishing and implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency on purely political grounds, demonstrating clear bias and prejudice against the President and the 74,000,000 Americans who voted for him,’ the first article of the resolution reads.
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Full headline: ‘Clear bias and prejudice against the president’: Lawmaker files articles of impeachment against SDNY judge who blocked DOGE from accessing sensitive government data
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