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Senator Eric Schmitt@SenEricSchmitt · Apr 14, 2026

"The pursuit of this improper investigation is a clear abuse of discretion." Judge Boasberg just got slapped…

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A Twitter thread criticizes Judge Boasberg, claiming the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against him in a contempt case involving Trump administration officials and Venezuelan deportations. The author argues the judge overstepped his authority by attempting to reinterpret a vague court order and calls for his impeachment.

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  1. #1

    "The pursuit of this improper investigation is a clear abuse of discretion." Judge Boasberg just got slapped down...again. The walls are closing in on his crusade to jail Trump officials for DEPORTING Venezualan terrorists. It's clear: time to impeach Rogue Judge Boasberg. 🧵

  2. #2

    To review: last March, Judge Boasberg forced himself onto the "turn the planes around" case—just a few days after trying to foment a constitutional crisis at a Judicial Conference meeting. He has spent the past year trying to jail prosecutors and cabinet Secretaries.

  3. #3

    Today, the D.C. Circuit issued an opinion, once again, in the appeal on Boasberg's attempt (extrajurisdictionally) to hold officials in contempt. The Court found Boasberg's "inquest" was both wrong on the law and a violation of our Separation of Powers. Let's break it down.

  4. #4

    The core holding is simple. Criminal contempt requires a court order that is “clear and specific.” The D.C. Circuit held this TRO was not. Why? Because the written order barred “removing” class members, but said nothing about transferring custody once the planes were already outside the United States.

  5. #5

    The district court tried to transform an order about “removal” into an order about continued U.S. custody in El Salvador. The D.C. Circuit said no: criminal liability cannot rest on what a judge later says he meant. It has to rest on what the order actually said at the time.

  6. #6

    Judge Boasberg was mad he didn't get his way by halting the deportation of TDA terrorists. He got shut down: “In our constitutional system of government, criminal liability cannot turn on the unstated intentions (or post hoc assertions) of a district court judge.”

  7. #7

    The district court told the government it would issue a written order “so you don’t have to race to write it down.” The written order then superseded the oral remarks—and that written order did not bar what the district court later claimed it barred.

  8. #8

    This is bigger than one case. If this contempt theory had survived, any politically charged district judge could issue a rushed, muddy order, then later reinterpret it to threaten executive officials with prosecution. The D.C. Circuit put a needed stop to that.

  9. #9

    Today’s ruling is a win for due process, for separation of powers, and for the proposition that judges must follow the law too. No vague order. No post-hoc rewrite. No judicial fishing expedition. No contempt. Time to move forward with impeachment.

    Senator Eric Schmitt@SenEricSchmitt · Jan 29, 2026

    This is just absurd. The House MUST move forward with Rogue Judge Boasberg's impeachment. On April 7, 2025 (297 days ago), the Supreme Court stripped this case away from Boasberg for lack of jurisdiction. He is still having hearings on remedies. IMPEACH.