On Wednesday, a House Republican unveiled articles of impeachment against a federal judge in New York who temporarily restricted Trump administration officials, including the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), from accessing a payment system of the Treasury Department.
The articles of impeachment introduced by Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ) accuse U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer, an Obama appointee, of high crimes and misdemeanors after his recent order that favored 19 Democrat state attorneys general who had sued over DOGE’s ability to access the system that reportedly oversees trillions of dollars in payments each year.
When Crane shared his articles to X on Wednesday, presidential adviser Elon Musk — who has been spearheading the DOGE effort to reduce government waste — responded, “Good.” Crane said in a reply: “If these activist judges want to be politicians, they should resign and run for office.”
One of two articles that appear in Crane’s resolution, which is available online, alleges Engelmayer “engaged in judicial misconduct” when the judge halted Trump’s executive order establishing and implementing DOGE on “purely political grounds, demonstrating clear bias and prejudice against the President and the 74,000,000 Americans who voted for him.”
It further states that Engelmayer “acted outside the bounds of judicial propriety,” including “by submitting this ruling that demonstrates clear bias and prejudice against the President;” and “by willfully disregarding established legal precedent in the issuance of rulings, by submitting this injunction in the middle of the night, which may have been done with the intent to influence the outcome of cases to favor certain parties.” […]
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