Concerns about the impartiality of the federal judicial system surfaced this week after Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt (R) publicly challenged the repeated assignment of U.S. District Judge James Boasberg to several significant cases involving President Donald Trump.
Posting on X, Schmitt described the pattern as a “statistical impossibility” and accused the case assignment process of being rigged.
Schmitt’s message quickly drew attention within conservative political circles.
“Judge James Boasberg has somehow been assigned FOUR major Trump cases,” he wrote on Tuesday.
“A statistical impossibility. That isn’t ‘random.’ It’s rigged.”
Boasberg, who currently serves as chief judge for the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, has presided over multiple high-profile legal battles tied to Trump and his administration.
These cases include a challenge concerning the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act—a statute employed to deport criminal illegal immigrants deemed threats to national security.
In addition to immigration cases, Boasberg oversaw litigation relating to the preservation of communications on the encrypted messaging app Signal.
In March, he ordered Trump officials to save messages sent between March 11 and 15 connected to a sensitive military operation in Yemen.
This directive came amid concerns over potential violations of federal record-keeping laws, since Signal’s auto-delete feature risked erasing crucial government communications.
The frequency with which Boasberg has been assigned these cases has sparked growing skepticism among Republican lawmakers.
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