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..
