Ted Cruz's Impeachment Wish Comes True: Rep. Brandon Gill Drops the Hammer on Judge Boasberg, the Deep State's Favorite Gavel-Wielding Enforcer

Oh, the sweet sound of accountability echoing through the marble halls of Congress, like a liberal's safe space suddenly discovering the concept of consequences. Judge James Boasberg, that judicial snowflake who's been melting under scrutiny, is now officially on thin ice thicker than a Biden family business deal. As my sharp-eyed colleague Katie Jerkovich laid out last Friday, Republican Rep. Byron Donalds (FL-19) spilled the beans on Fox News' The Ingraham Angle, hinting that his Texas colleague, Rep. Brandon Gill (TX-26) was gearing up to serve Judge Boasberg a piping hot platter of impeachment articles. 

The reason for the impeachment is due to Boasberg playing activist ringmaster in the circus that was the Trump probe, green-lighting subpoenas that snagged phone records from nine U.S. Senators like they were low-hanging fruit of a loom. And leading the charge was none other than Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), one of the subpoenaed senators, who'd been hollering for Boasberg's robe to get yanked faster than Adam Schiff can spout a lie.

Well, wishes do come true when you're not wishing on a star but on a filibuster. The House finally delivered the goods on Tuesday, with Gill introducing the Articles of Impeachment against Boasberg. 

"I just filed Articles of Impeachment against radical activist Judge James Boasberg," Gill announced with hidden glee.

"Judge Boasberg abused his power by weaponizing the judiciary against critics of the Biden Administration. As part of the Arctic Frost Investigation, Judge Boasberg signed off on frivolous nondisclosure orders to conceal the fact that sitting US Senators were being surveilled.

"Not only was this action egregiously improper; it was a gross violation of the separation of powers.

"Judge Boasberg is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, is unfit for office, and should be impeached."

In a follow-up chat that could double as a masterclass in calling out judicial malpractice, Gill didn't mince words: Boasberg had "compromised the impartiality of the judiciary." Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX), is formally introducing impeachment articles against U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Tuesday for his role in the "Arctic Frost" probe.

Republican allies of President Donald Trump have been criticizing Boasberg after news broke that he was the judge who signed off on subpoenas and other measures in former Special Counsel Jack Smith's probe.

"Chief Judge Boasberg has compromised the impartiality of the judiciary and created a constitutional crisis. He is shamelessly weaponizing his power against his political opponents, including Republican members of Congress who are faithfully serving the American people within their jurisdiction," Gill told Fox News Digital.

"Judge Boasberg was an accomplice in the egregious Arctic Frost scandal where he equipped the Biden DOJ to spy on Republican senators. His lack of integrity makes him clearly unfit for the gavel. I am proud to once again introduce articles of impeachment against Judge Boasberg to hold him accountable for his high crimes and misdemeanors."

It's not just Lone Star firebrands lighting this fuse. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), whose phone records got the full Snowden treatment in this mess, teamed up with Republican House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (OH-4) on Fox Business' Larry Kudlow show. She confirmed she had tapped Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to drag Boasberg before the committee for a testify-or-fry session. Because nothing says "transparency" like hauling a judge in to explain why he thought spying on senators was just another Tuesday.

Gill's resolution lays it out in black-and-white legalese that's about as subtle as a sledgehammer to a piñata: one count of abuse of power, per the text we scooped first at Fox News Digital. "Ignoring his responsibility to wield the power of his office in a constitutional manner, Chief Judge Boasberg granted Special Counsel John L. Smith authorization to issue frivolous nondisclosure orders in furtherance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation project codenamed ARCTIC FROST," the text said.

"These nondisclosure orders covered Members of Congress who were acting in accord with their legislative duties and privileges guaranteed by Article 1, Section 6, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution."

Look, impeaching federal judges isn't like giving out a traffic ticket. It's rarer than an honest politician's memoir. Since 1803, we've only seen 15 such spectacles in U.S. history, with a measly eight ending in Senate convictions. 

The usual suspects? "Making false statements, favoritism toward litigants or special appointees, intoxication on the bench, and abuse of the contempt power." If rubber-stamping Deep State dirt on lawmakers doesn't qualify as the judicial equivalent of drunk-driving a gavel, I don't know what does. Buckle up, Boasberg; the bench might be getting a vacancy notice.

Wouldn't it be lovely?

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Cory Booker praises Obama's economic recovery--Larry Kudlow slams him

Larry Kudlow, the National Economic Council Director knows a thing or two about economics. Senator Cory "Spartacus" Booker (D-NJ) barely knows how to comb his hair [singular].

On Sunday, Spartacus said President Trump was "taking credit for a recovery that started under [former President Barack] Obama." He was referring to an anemic change in direction that was as wishy-washy for the economy as Obama was toward ISIS.

So everything good that happens under Trump, Obama gets the credit. Everything bad, well, you know.

"What Mr. Booker and some others are saying is simply not true factually," Kudlow told Fox News' "America's News HQ".

Kudlow spoke after the publication of Friday's  jobs report for April, which showed that the American economy added 263,000 jobs last month while the unemployment rate fell to 3.6 percent, the lowest since 1969, about a half century.

Despite the high numbers, Booker insisted that the boom's effects were not being felt across all economic levels, which indicates a lack of understanding in line with that of Bernie Sanders.

"You have people on my block – I'm the only presidential candidate that lives in a low-income inner-city neighborhood. [His self-imposed victimhood is supposed to be a badge of honor.] Talk to folks, and they'll tell you: 'I have to work two jobs just to try to keep myself in housing. And, by the way, that housing isn't reflected in any of my family,'" Booker said on CNN's "State of the Union."

 "Americans are struggling. Their wages are too low ... for the last four decades, I don't think they've budged that much ... We've got to make sure that this is a shared recovery, because, right now, it definitely is not."

Kudlow disagreed with the bug-eyed 2020 presidential candidate.

"I'm just gonna use the damn facts," he told Fox News' Leland Vittert, whose sister is also an economist. "On the wage front, average hourly earnings are rising 3.2 percent overall. The bottom [poorest] quarter [of workers], 4.4 percent increase, the top quarter, 3.5 percent [increase]."

"First of all, both are good and a rising tide is lifting all boats," Kudlow added. "But the point I'm making is, it's the blue collar people that have the fastest job expansion and it's the blue collar people that have the best wage growth."

Kudlow addressed the April jobs report in a video posted on the White House's Instagram page Friday afternoon.

"Wow! Low unemployment, high jobs, high wages, big consumer confidence, major productivity and no inflation," he said enthusiastically. "It's totally awesome. We're killing it on the economy."

"I don't know how I had the energy to do that," Kudlow said Sunday. "I just walked out and, I don't know, man, let her rip. These are blowout numbers. The economy is going great guns and POTUS'  policies, to be perfectly honest, his policies to rebuild this economy have entered us into a tremendous prosperity cycle. And I don't see any end to it right now."

It's beginning to look like Booker's chance of winning the Democratic nomination is about as good as an unborn baby at Planned Parenthood.


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Peter Navarro apologizes for 'Special place in hell' comment

White House trade adviser and village idiot Peter Navarro had to apologize for a stupid statement he made on Tuesday about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Navarro said there was a "special place in hell" for Trudeau, after last week's G-7 summit after the Prime Minister pushed back on President Trump's decision to place large tariffs on Canada.

"My mission was to send a strong signal of strength," Navarro said in a statement written in crayon. "The problem is that in conveying that message I used language that was inappropriate."

And pretty gosh-darn stupid.

Chee--he sounded like Madeline Albright when on February 6, 2016 she said:

"Young women have to support Hillary Clinton. The story is not over! They're going to want to push us back. Appointments to the supreme court make all the difference. 

"It's not done and you have to help. Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember, there's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other."

It didn't work then and it didn't work when Navarro said it. And this apology is very uncharacteristic in an administration that apologizes only upon the arrival of Halley's Comet.

When reporters asked Trudeau if he accepted the apology he declined to answer, instead wiggling his eyebrows in what looked like a pair of choreographed caterpillars doing the lambada.

"We will continue to conduct our diplomacy the Canadian way, that is, being positive and constructive [eh] and firm in defending the interests of our industries [eh] . . . in diplomacy it doesn't really matter about personal feelings and personal comments [eh]" said Trade Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne [silent 'g'] when asked about the apology.

"There is a special place in hell for any leader that engages in bad-faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump [because God's got his back] and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the door and that's what bad-faith Justin Trudeau did with that stunt press conference. That's what weak, dishonest Justin Trudeau did," Navarro said on the "Fox News Sunday" show.

As much as I dislike Trudeau [not because he looks like the late Andy Kaufman--I really liked Kaufman] but because he's a liberal buffoon who isn't very bright and only got elected on his looks and his daddy's name.

The day prior to Navarro's statement, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow spoke out against Trudeau and today Kudlow was hospitalized for a heart attack, which gives one pause when dissing Canadians, eh.

Both aides accused Trudeau of betraying Trump [who now calls himself a Republican] at a news conference held after Trump left the land of maple syrup, hockey and eh.


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