Impeaching Judges Faces Long Odds in House, No Path in Senate

President Donald Trump’s crusade against a federal judge who scuttled his immigration agenda is causing an intraparty rift between GOP hardliners and institutionalists that could soon play out on the House floor.

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas), a hard-right freshman, this week filed articles of impeachment against Chief Judge James Boasberg of the US District Court for the District of Columbia, who paused Trump’s deportations using the centuries-old Alien Enemies Act. The proposal came after Trump called for Boasberg to be removed from the bench, eliciting a rare public rebuke from President George W. Bush-appointed Chief Justice John Roberts. The back ...