‘TOTAL CORRUPTION’: Anti-Trump Judge Boasberg issues order protecting Fed chief Jerome Powell from subpoena

James Boasberg, a federal judge in Washington who has been one of the most active and aggressive members of the federal judiciary using his courtroom to oppose President Donald Trump’s agenda, has done it again.

He’s ruled against subpoenas from the Department of Justice for Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell and other Fed information.

Boasberg, who was part and parcel of the FISA court scheme to spy on Trump and his associates, who wildly ordered jets carrying deported illegal alien criminals to be turned around mid-air and returned to the U.S., who ordered the president to go overseas and fetch back to America 100 already deported illegal alien criminals, claimed the investigation into the Fed was part of an agenda to provide lower interest rates for Americans.

Boasberg, given his lifetime job by Barack Obama, said the subpoenas to Powell and the Federal Reserve Board were political.

He cited a “mountain of evidence” that the federal government wanted to pressure the board for provide those lower interest rates, and then dramatically suggested the “displeasing the president” actually was a “crime.”

He said, “The government has offered no evidence that Powell committed any crime other than displeasing the president.”

Jeanine Pirro, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, responded to Boasberg’s politics, with, “Now enter local district court judge James Boasberg, whose written decision on its face makes clear his antipathy toward President Trump and this administration. He quashes both subpoenas, thereby prohibiting us from reviewing any records and precluding us from submitting records to the grand jury.”

She added, “Ladies and gentlemen, no one is above the law. But for the first time, a judge is ruling that a grand jury subpoena, on its face, legal in all regards, can be ignored because a judge thinks the subject is beyond reproach. This is a decision that is untethered to the law. It creates chaos where any defendant who wishes to evade an investigation, guilty or not, can allege I’m a victim, I’m being targeted, and therefore you cannot investigate me.”

A number of judges, including Boasberg, have been subject of formal ethics complaints for their political opposition to the president, only to be protected by other judges.

They have been cited in impeachment petitions, which are unlikely to succeed in the Senate as Democrats there are expected to endorse even the most outlandish courtroom behaviors.

And a recent report from Bloomberg Law said the Department of Justice is “soliciting examples of perceived judicial activism from all U.S. attorneys’ offices to inform potential impeachment referrals to Congress.”

THIS IS TOTAL CORRUPTION.

Activist Judge Boasberg just blocked a Grand Jury from investigating the Fed. Jeanine Pirro says it’s ILLEGAL.

The House must start IMPEACHING these rogue judges immediately. No more excuses.pic.twitter.com/plOblJltiD

— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) March 13, 2026

BREAKING: US Attorney Pirro says Activist Judge Boasberg took an UNPRECEDENTED step to BLOCK a Grand Jury from SUBPOENAING Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s records after $1 BILLION in tax dollars went missing

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— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 13, 2026

Entry-level judges in the federal court system repeatedly have overruled, or tried to overrule, Trump, actually imposing their will, sometimes on a worldwide basis, on his Executive Branch actions. They’ve decided who the president can hire, or fire, from the Executive Branch. They’ve decided what prisoners can be jailed and where. They’ve decided what Trump must spend on various programs.

Their activism already has resulted in a Supreme Court decision that they are no longer allowed to issue nationwide injunctions, a decision they’ve worked around by then declaring plaintiffs to be a “class.”

The report cited two people familiar with a recent virtual meeting who explained chief prosecutors and other leaders of the 93 U.S. attorneys’ offices “were told to provide DOJ headquarters with vivid instances in which judges obstructed through adverse rulings.”

A report from Courthousenews said the DOJ opened an investigation into Powell in January concerning his testimony “before the Senate Banking Committee last June regarding the Fed’s $2.5 billion renovation of two office buildings.”

When the Fed revealed the investigation, Powell statement demanded that it be viewed “in the broader context of the administration’s threats and ongoing pressure” against him.

Trump has charged that the project, and its billions of dollars in expenses, is excessive.

Pirro said Boasberg is wrongfully interfering with the grand jury’s ability to review evidence, calling him an “activist judge.”

Pirro said the subpoenas came about because Powell refused to comply with investigators’ requests for documents related to the renovation project.

She said Boasberg’s agenda would be appealed, and in fact, many of the lower court judge’s rulings against Trump have been overturned on appeal.

The Trump administration also is trying to fire Lisa Cook from the Fed board, based on allegations of mortgage fraud. She was accused of claiming two different houses as her main residence in 2021 to obtain better loan terms.

That fight also is pending in court.

Boasberg also was the judge who gave Kevin Clinesmith probation after he admitted changing a CIA email used in a FISA case against a Trump associate.

Boasberg also has himself claimed that the Trump administration committed “criminal contempt” in its agenda to enforce border and immigration law. His agenda was blocked by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

He also was targeted by a misconduct complaint from the DOJ after he made “improper comments” fretting to other judges that he would issue an order but the president would not follow it.

Another judge protected Boasberg in that case.

Boasberg also approved the Democrats’ scheme to obtain telephone records of members of Congress and dozens of others in an attempt to build a case against Trump, and then keep secret from the targets the fact their records had been obtained.

As a result of that, six senators asked for the administrative suspension of Boasberg.