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\u00a0A Republican ally of\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0has moved to impeach a federal judge who blocked a team set up by the president and spearheaded by billionaire\u00a0Elon Musk<\/a>\u00a0from accessing U.S. Treasury Department systems responsible for trillions of dollars in payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Congressman Derrick Van Orden on Tuesday\u00a0filed a resolution, opens new tab<\/a>\u00a0in the House of Representatives seeking to have U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer in Manhattan removed from office following calls by Musk and several conservative lawmakers for judges to be impeached after stymieing key parts of Trump’s agenda.

Van Orden’s resolution accused the judge of judicial misconduct and abuse of power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to be removed from office, the House must pass by a simple majority vote an article of impeachment accusing Engelmayer of a crime and then the Senate must then vote by at least a two-thirds majority to convict the judge. Republicans control both chambers of Congress but do not have a two-thirds majority in the Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Engelmayer, an appointee of Democratic former President Barack Obama, drew Musk’s scorn after\u00a0temporarily blocking<\/a>\u00a0Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, from accessing Treasury Department systems in a lawsuit brought by 19 Democratic state attorneys general.

Van Orden’s resolution accused the judge of judicial misconduct and abuse of power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to be removed from office, the House must pass by a simple majority vote an article of impeachment accusing Engelmayer of a crime and then the Senate must then vote by at least a two-thirds majority to convict the judge. Republicans control both chambers of Congress but do not have a two-thirds majority in the Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Engelmayer, an appointee of Democratic former President Barack Obama, drew Musk’s scorn after\u00a0temporarily blocking<\/a>\u00a0Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, from accessing Treasury Department systems in a lawsuit brought by 19 Democratic state attorneys general.

Van Orden, whose reelection bid last year received Trump’s endorsement, was the first member of Congress to formally do so, accusing Engelmayer in his resolution of committing high crimes and misdemeanors. He is the resolution’s sole sponsor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Orden in his resolution accused Engelmayer of ruling against DOGE and Trump “on purely political grounds, demonstrating clear bias and prejudice against the president and the 74,000,000 Americans who voted for him.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marin Levy, a Duke University School of Law professor who studies the federal judiciary, said impeachment under the U.S. Constitution is supposed to be reserved for serious misconduct, not disappointment with court decisions, which can be appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Articles of impeachment filed against judges who are simply performing their constitutional role represent an attempt to politicize the judiciary and quite frankly to intimidate judges,” Levy said.

Impeachments of federal judges are rare: Only 15 have ever been impeached in U.S. history, and only eight have been convicted by the Senate, most recently in 2010. Such impeachments in modern history have typically related to criminal or bribery offenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republicans have a 53-47 majority in the Senate, meaning some Democrats would need to vote for impeachment in order to remove the judge from the bench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts in a\u00a0year-end report issued on December 31<\/a>\u00a0defending the judiciary’s independence described a threat by an unnamed elected official to impeach a judge over her decisions as a regrettable example of “recent attempts to intimidate judges.”

Reprinted from Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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