The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a complaint against federal judge James G. Boasberg of the D.C. Circuit, charging that he made “improper comments” that “have undermined the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary.” The Justice Department will conduct an investigation and upon substantiation “impose appropriate disciplinary action, including a public reprimand and referral to the Judicial Conference for consideration of impeachment-related recommendations.” That hints at the only appropriate treatment for Boasberg, who for a time wielded more power than the justices of the Supreme Court.

A San Francisco native, Boasberg moved to Washington as a child when his father, Emanuel Boasberg III, accepted a position in the Office of Economic Opportunity—the agency responsible for administrating President Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty” programs. So Boasberg fils is a “Great Society” diaper baby. The Yale law alum rose through the ranks and in 2011 Barack Obama, formerly known as Barry Soetoro, appointed Boasberg to the D.C. District Court. The Obama judge would soon gain promotion to a more powerful post.

In 2014, Chief Justice John Roberts appointed Boasberg to the court established by the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a secret body with no precedent in American history. The FISA court failed to pick up Sen. Ted Kennedy’s covert collaboration with the Soviet Union when he attempted to gain the Democratic nomination to oppose Ronald Reagan in 1984, and failed to detect the terrorists of September 11, 2001.

The Senate does not hold hearings to determine whether an appointee is qualified for the FISA court. Boasberg, who began serving in January 2020, would provide evidence that he was the worst possible choice. As presiding FISA judge, he handled a case central to the Obama-Clinton-CIA-FBI campaign against candidate and, later, President Donald Trump.

U.S. Navy veteran Carter Page, who worked with the Trump campaign in 2016, had also served as an asset for the CIA. One of the applications to surveil Page came from Kevin Clinesmith, the assistant general counsel in the National Security and Cyber Law Branch of the FBI’s Office of General Counsel. Clinesmith altered an email to make it appear as though Page was not a CIA asset, exposing him to surveillance as part of the FBI’s covert “Crossfire Hurricane” operation against Trump.

In August 2020, Clinesmith pleaded guilty to falsifying the email, a felony carrying a maximum five years in prison and a fine of $250,000. That case also came before Boasberg in his post on the D.C. Circuit. Boasberg told the court that Clinesmith “went from being an obscure government lawyer to standing in the eye of a media hurricane,” a possible allusion to the “Crossfire Hurricane” operation.

“By altering the email,” Boasberg explained, Clinesmith was “saving himself some work and taking an inappropriate shortcut.” According to the Obama judge, the FISA warrant to surveil Carter Page would have been approved even without Clinesmith’s “misstatement,” a curious description of a major felony. In effect, Boasberg was confirming approval of a bogus covert operation funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign.

The Obama-Roberts judge also contended that Clinesmith’s “misstatement” was the “only stain on the defendant’s character that I have been able to discern.” Trouble was, since Clinesmith had already pleaded guilty he was no longer a “defendant,” but an admitted criminal awaiting sentence. For a crime commanding a five-year maximum, Boasberg gave Clinesmith 12 months of probation and 400 hours community service, barely a slap on the wrist.

Supreme Court Justices Roberts, Thomas, Kagan, et al. cannot slide down to a lower court and participate in the sentencing of a party involved in a case the high court previously handled. So Boasberg, as the presiding judge of the FISA court, held a clear advantage and maintained his sense of empowerment.  

On March 15, President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport hundreds of criminal illegals to El Salvador. Boasberg ordered the airplanes to turn around and return the deported criminals. In effect, the D.C. Circuit judge appointed himself president of the United States and director of the Federal Aviation Administration, all without confirmation or ever having to face the voters.

The president is the only government official elected by all the people, so usurpation of presidential powers by unelected judges is an offense against the people of the United States.

Federal judges can be impeached, but Chief Justice Roberts opposes the effort to impeach Boasberg, who in effect acted as pro-bono attorney for the Tren de Aragua terrorists, the criminal lobby (ACLU), and the Stalinist Maduro regime.

“Impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” said Roberts in a statement. For all but the willfully blind, impeachment is the only appropriate response in the case of Boasberg, who showcases the dynamics in play.

In the style of Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose medical degree served as a bureaucratic credential, Boasberg’s JD is his supposed credential to act as a politician. Fauci exercised executive-level power without ever facing the voters, and the white-coat supremacist claimed to represent science. Black-robe supremacist Boasberg acts as though he embodies the law, and both men believe they stand above it. Biden pardoned Fauci, but there can be no forgiveness for a judge who usurps the power of the presidency.

To paraphrase Michael Corleone in The Godfather, where does it say you can’t impeach a circuit court judge? We are talking about a partisan judge, an arrogant judge who thinks he’s a king and ought to get what is coming to him. The people just might like an impeachment action like that. The Department of Justice complaint lays the groundwork but there could be more to it.

The Justice Department is now digging deep into the Russia hoax, and it’s a stretch to think that Clinesmith falsified the Page email all by himself. Who gave the order? What did FISA judge Boasberg know, and when did he know it? As Trump says, we’ll have to see what happens.