Department of Justice seal on a podium. (Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Singh asked the U.S. attorneys to compile examples of issues they have had with judges, which the DOJ could then use to determine if referring judges for impeachment was appropriate.
A DOJ spokesperson confirmed the move in a statement to Fox News Digital, saying the Trump administration is "facing unprecedented judicial activism from rogue judges who care more about making a name for themselves than acting as impartial arbiters of the law."
"The Department of Justice solicited the most egregious examples of this obstruction from our U.S. Attorney Offices to assist Congress with efforts to rein in judges violating their oaths in accordance with their constitutional oversight authority of the judicial branch," the spokesperson said.
James Boasberg, incoming chief judge of the U.S. District Court, in Washington, D.C., on Monday, March 13, 2023. (Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
As a recourse against adverse rulings, the DOJ has publicly decried judges' decisions or appealed them, the latter of which requires layers of internal approvals.
Calling on the House, narrowly led by Republicans, to impeach judges would be a new approach. Two-thirds of the Senate would then need to vote to convict the judges, which would strip them of their lifetime appointments.
The DOJ has been managing hundreds of lawsuits, a large fraction of which deal with the administration's aggressive crackdown on immigration and controversial deportation tactics. Adverse rulings and reprimands from lower court judges have been frequent.
Prosecutors, for instance, charged Juan Espinoza Martinez with engaging in a murder-for-hire plot against U.S. Border Patrol official Greg Bovino. However, Espinoza Martinez was acquitted in January after a Clinton-appointed federal judge in Chicago rejected the DOJ's requests to inform the jury that Martinez allegedly belonged to the Latin Kings gang, contending that the department did not have enough evidence to raise that claim in court.
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The DOJ spokesperson further outlined the department's frustrations, telling Fox News Digital that district court and magistrate judges have refused to sign criminal complaints or search warrants when clear probable cause exists, made bad rulings about evidence and jury instructions, granted emergency restraining orders against the government without giving the DOJ a reasonable time to respond and "erroneously" involved themselves in the U.S. attorney nominations process.
Fox News Digital reached out to the House Judiciary Committee, which would vet any judicial impeachments, about how it would handle the possible referrals.
Ashley Oliver is a reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business, covering the Justice Department and legal affairs. Email story tips to ashley.oliver@fox.com.
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