Consultant Eli Crane (R-AZ) filed articles of impeachment Friday towards Obama-appointed U.S. District Choose Paul Engelmayer after his controversial resolution to dam the newly established Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) from accessing an important Treasury cost system.
The ruling got here in response to a lawsuit filed by Trump-hating New York Legal professional Basic Letitia James and 18 Democrat state attorneys normal infuriated over Trump’s efforts to downsize authorities.
As The Gateway Pundit lately reported, Crane introduced final week that he was drafting the articles towards the far-left Choose, calling his resolution a “menace to democracy.”
Englemayer isn’t the one radical partisan decide trying to dam the duly elected President’s agenda. The Gateway Pundit reported that U.S. District Choose John McConnell, one other Obama appointee who was caught on video calling President Trump a tyrant and expressing anti-White Crucial Race Principle views, lately blocked President Trump’s initiative to freeze federal spending on the behest of Democrat state attorneys normal.
The Gateway Pundit reported that Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) has additionally begun the method of impeaching Choose McConnell. “He’s a partisan activist weaponizing our judicial system to cease President Trump’s funding freeze on woke and wasteful authorities spending. We should finish this abusive overreach. Keep tuned,” Clyde mentioned.
On Friday, Eli Crane introduced that his impeachment effort was formally began within the Home of Representatives.
“If these partisan judges need to be politicians, they need to resign and run for workplace,” Crane mentioned.
UPDATE: My articles of impeachment for U.S. District Choose Paul Engelmayer are formally filed.
If these partisan judges need to be politicians, they need to resign and run for workplace.
Learn extra in my press launch: https://t.co/jKZUiiHV6p https://t.co/LrTFIeG4Uy
— Rep. Eli Crane (@RepEliCrane) February 21, 2025
Crane issued the next press launch:
On February 11, 2025, Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ) introduced his intention to introduce articles of impeachment for U.S. District Choose Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York.
At present, Rep. Crane fulfilled that promise by formally submitting articles of impeachment towards Choose Engelmayer for prime crimes and misdemeanors.
“Activist judges can’t cease the President from executing his Article II powers. White Home staff have each proper to entry the very methods they oversee. President Trump campaigned on rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse from the federal authorities, and the American individuals gave him a mandate to take action,” mentioned Rep. Eli Crane. “That is clearly judicial overreach and a transparent menace to democracy. If these partisan judges need to be politicians, they need to resign and run for workplace.”
Background:
On February 8, 2025, U.S. District Choose Paul Engelmayer responded to an overtly political emergency request by 19 Democratic attorneys normal aiming to forestall Trump administration officers from accessing a cost system inside the Treasury Division.
Choose Engelmayer sided with the states’ evaluation and blocked political appointees, together with Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, from accessing these data.
Article II, Part 3 of the U.S. Structure states that the President, “shall take Care that the Legal guidelines be faithfully executed.” By limiting the Govt Department from performing its duties, Choose Engelmayer unlawfully violated the separation of powers.
Right here is textual content from the impeachment decision:
ARTICLE I: ABUSE OF POWER
Choose Paul Engelmayer, in violation of his oath of workplace, did knowingly and willfully use his judicial place to advance private pursuits and political acquire.
The Structure offers that the Home of Representatives ‘‘shall have the only Energy of Impeachment’’ and that ‘‘civil Officers of the USA’’, together with Federal judges, are topic to impeachment and elimination.
Additional, the separation of powers below the Structure grants the President broad authority over the chief department, together with direct management and entry to departments, as a part of his position in making certain the administration of legal guidelines and insurance policies of the USA.
In his conduct of the workplace of United States District Courtroom Choose, wherein he violated his oath to the Structure and responsibility of impartiality to the individuals of the USA, Paul A. Engelmayer has abused the powers of his judicial authority, having engaged in actions that prioritize private and political affiliations over the responsibility of impartiality owed to the general public and litigants as follows:
(1) Choose Engelmayer restrained President Trump and Secretary Bessent from granting entry to any Division of the Treasury document, cost methods, or another knowledge methods maintained by the Division of the Treasury containing personally identifiable data or confidential monetary data of payees; and
(2) Choose Engelmayer restrained President Trump and Secretary Bessent from granting granting entry to all political appointees, particular Authorities staff, and Authorities staff detailed from one other Federal company, to any Division of the Treasury cost document, cost methods, or another knowledge methods maintained by the Division of the Treasury containing personally identifiable data.
This conduct has resulted in obvious bias and favoritism, representing an abuse of judicial energy and is detrimental to the orderly functioning of the judiciary. Utilizing the powers of his excessive workplace, Choose Engelmayer interfered with the desire of the individuals.
In so doing, Choose Engelmayer used the powers of his place to have interaction in actions that overstep is judicial authority. By making a political resolution outdoors the scope of his authorized duties, he compromised the impartiality of our judicial system.
Wherefore, Choose Engelmayer is responsible of excessive crimes and misdemeanors and ought to be faraway from workplace.
The Gateway Pundit will proceed to offer updates on Representatives Crane and Clyde’s efforts to question the unconventional left judges.
