GOP Reps Plot Retaliation Against Judges Who Stood Up to DOGE

Two House Republicans are planning long-shot impeachment bids against federal judges who have blocked parts of the Trump administration’s nascent efforts to disrupt the federal government.

Rep. Eli Crane of Arizona said last week that he intends to introduce articles of impeachment against U.S. District Court Judge Paul Engelmayer, who earlier this month imposed sweeping restrictions on Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency that limit the task force’s access to sensitive Treasury Department systems.

During an appearance on disgraced former Rep. Matt Gaetz’s show on One America News Network on Wednesday, Crane claimed Democrats were trying to thwart the efforts of Musk and his gaggle of teen and twenty-something DOGE loyalists “through the judicial system with activist judges.”

He said that his colleague, Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia, would also introduce articles of impeachment targeting U.S. District Court Judge John McConnell Jr., who ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze billions in congressionally approved federal funding last month. Last week, McConnell further found that the Trump administration had violated his court’s order.

Clyde posted on X a day before Crane’s appearance that he was already drafting the articles of impeachment.

To impeach the judges, Clyde and Crane would need support from a majority in the House, where Republicans enjoy a slight advantage. In order to remove them, they would need two-thirds of the Senate, where Republicans hold 53 of 100 seats.

While the impeachment efforts are, therefore, highly unlikely to succeed, the judges have faced scorn from the very top of the Trump administration.

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“Maybe we have to look at the judges because I think that’s a very serious violation,” President Donald Trump said with Musk standing beside him in the Oval Office on Tuesday.

Musk himself demanded Engelmayer’s impeachment after he blocked the DOGE team from the Treasury systems.

A day after Engelmayer’s ruling, Vice President JD Vance claimed on X that “judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.”

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt last week said that “district court judges in liberal districts across the country are abusing their power to unilaterally block President Trump’s basic executive authority.”