Bondi: Judge assigned to Trump cases 'cannot be objective'
Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday the federal judge assigned to adjudicate the Signal group chat case "cannot be objective," adding, "many judges need to be removed."
Bondi said it was a "wild coincidence against Donald Trump and our administration" that U.S. District Judge James Boasberg was appointed 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. The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg was inadvertently included in the chat, leading to it being revealed to the public.
Boasberg is the judge who ruled against the Trump administration in a separate matter involving Venezuelan migrants, allegedly members of the Tren de Aragua gang, who were deported. Boasberg had argued planes should be turned around to return those being deported to allow the courts to consider the matter.
Trump and other administration officials have ripped Boasberg over the matter, and even called for his impeachment. That drew a rebuke from U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts, who said appeals — not impeachments — should be used when there are disagreements with court decisions.
"He shouldn't be on any of these cases. He cannot be objective. He's made that crystal clear," Bondi said of Boasberg on Fox News's "Ingraham Angle."
Earlier Thursday, President Trump doubled down on his criticism of Boasberg, calling the 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 Thursday in a post on Truth Social.
With the addition of Signal-related lawsuit against key Trump officials, Boasberg is now managing four lawsuits involving the second Trump administration. Each case was assigned to him randomly.
The watchdog organization American Oversight filed a lawsuit over the Signal chat. In its submission, the group claims Trump officials breached their responsibilities under the Federal Records Act by failing to preserve Signal messages related to the recent assault 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.