Graham, Schmitt and Colleagues Send Letter Calling for the Suspension of Judge Boasberg Pending Impeachment Proceedings

WASHINGTON –
This week U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Eric Schmitt (R-Missouri) sent a letter along with four of their colleagues to Judge Sri Srinivasan, the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, calling for the suspension of Judge James Boasberg, pending impeachment proceedings by the U.S. House of Representatives and trial in the U.S. Senate.
As part of the Arctic Frost investigation into President Trump, Special Counsel Jack Smith
subpoenaed
the phone records of Senator Graham and seven of his Senate colleagues. During these proceedings, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg issued a gag order to Verizon, Graham’s phone carrier, instructing them not to notify Graham of the subpoena because
“such disclosure will result”
in the destruction of evidence or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy to the investigation.
Graham has called for a
Watergate-style investigation
into Judge Boasberg for his potential misconduct.
The senators wrote,
“Chief Judge Boasberg should be administratively suspended pending formal impeachment by the House of Representatives and, if impeached, an impeachment trial by the Senate. On November 4, 2025, Articles of Impeachment were filed against Chief Judge Boasberg over, among other things, his role in improperly granting gag orders in the ‘Arctic Frost’ probe.”
The letter implores Chief Judge Srinivasan to address the misconduct complaint that was filed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) against Judge Boasberg in accordance with the law and requests a status update be sent to the House Judiciary Committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee and DOJ.
“On July 28, 2025, the Department of Justice filed a formal judicial misconduct complaint against Judge Boasberg, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 351(a).7 Under 28 U.S.C. § 352, you are mandated to ‘expeditiously’ review this complaint and determine whether to take ‘appropriate corrective action,’”
the senators noted.
They continued,
“While this impeachment process proceeds, we must have transparency regarding the actions the Circuit Judicial Council is taking against the judicial misconduct of Chief Judge Boasberg.”
Graham and Schmitt were joined in this letter by U.S. Senators Kevin Cramer (R-North Dakota), Bill Hagerty (R-Tennessee), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama).
Read more about the letter in the
Washington Examiner
.
The full text of the letter can be found
HERE
.
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