‘Seditious behavior’: Anti-Trump federal judge ramps up his war on the president

A federal judge in Washington who repeatedly has used his judicial role to attack President Donald Trump and his agenda for making American great again now has ramped up his war on the Executive Branch by changing the rules for grand juries and their indictments.

A report from Fox News explains Judge James Boasberg, who the report called “a frequent thorn in President Donald Trump’s side,” now has issued an order changing those grand jury requirements.

The new notification requirement imposed by Boasberg demands that the “duty magistrate judge” must be notified whenever a grand jury “fails to concur in an indictment.”

Boasberg wrote, “This court has reviewed current practices relating to the return of indictments and notification of instances in which a grand jury has declined to indict. In furtherance of the interests of consistency and transparency, and pursuant to its authority under Rule 57.14(b), this court finds that notification should be provided to the duty magistrate judge whenever a grand jury fails to concur in an indictment, regardless of whether the defendant has already been charged.”

He issued a list of demands, including, “When a grand jury fails to concur in an indictment in a GJO [Grand Jury Original] investigation, the foreperson shall promptly and in writing report the lack of concurrence to the duty magistrate judge under seal.”

He also demands, “Notifications provided pursuant to this order shall be maintained in the confidential files of the Clerk’s Office and will not be made public absent order of the Court; and This order shall remain in effect for 120 days, during which time the Court will consider the adoption of a local rule requiring such notifications. See LCvR 1.1(b).”

Fox noted the order followed by days a decision by a grand jury not to indict several members of Congress, described as the “seditious six” for their public warning to U.S. service members not to follow the “illegal orders” of President Trump, without being able to identify any such illegal orders.

The DOJ had sought potential grand jury indictments of six Democrats — Reps. Jason Crow, D-Co.; Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H.; Chris Deluzio, D-Pa.; and Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa.; and Sens. Mark Kelly, D-Ari.; and Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich.

The six released a video publicly calling for U.S. service members to reject unlawful orders, again, without identify any such orders, but clearly targeting “this administration.”

The president has described the attack as “seditious behavior” for undermining the confidence of U.S. service members in the command structure.

Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for Washington, sought the indictments in the district that is so notoriously left-leaning some 9 in 10 voters opposed Trump’s presidency.

Pirro has called Boasberg an “activist judge.”

The report said Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, had introduced articles of impeachment for Boasberg for “abuse of power” in blocking the Trump administration from removing terrorists and ordered a plane with terrorists to return to the U.S. last year, and another for nondisclosure orders for the former Biden administration’s Artic Frost investigation of congressional Republicans.

Boasberg also has killed subpoenas from the DOJ for Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell and other Fed information, regarding cost overruns on a billion dollar office remodel project. And Boasberg was part and parcel of the FISA court scheme to spy on Trump and his associates.

He wildly ordered jets carrying deported illegal alien criminals to be turned around mid-air and returned to the U.S., and ordered the president to go overseas and fetch back to America 100 already deported illegal alien criminals.

The Barack Obama appointee has been suggested by members of Congress for impeachment and has been a part of a coalition of activist judges across the nation trying to control the president’s decisions regarding the operation of the executive branch of government.

They went so far that the Supreme Court had to rein them in, telling them they no longer could issue nationwide injunctions, a decision they’ve worked around by then declaring plaintiffs to be a “class.”

Boasberg has himself claimed that the Trump administration committed “criminal contempt” because it didn’t do what he wants 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 from punishment 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.

WND reported on the statements from the six members of Congress. One, Kelly, remains subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the War Department’s plan to punish him for his attack on the president now is pending before an appeals court.

Wait so a bunch of elected Democrats suggested the military was carrying out unlawful and illegal orders and must defy the Trump admin and then two national guardsmen who were doing their job were shot?? pic.twitter.com/q9Z105nFY2

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 26, 2025

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