Representative Eli Crane (AZ-02) is filing Articles of Impeachment against U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer, an activist judge who has issued a ruling blocking DOGE from accessing Treasury systems, and Rep. Andrew Clyde (GA-09) is drafting articles of impeachment for Rhode Island District Judge John McConnell Jr. for blocking Trump's spending freeze.
How did Judge Engelmayer come to issue an order protecting the vast scheme of corruption DOGE is uncovering?
Some 20 Democratic state Attorneys General filed suit. Not about the fraud. Not about the waste. Not about billions vanishing into accounts without SSNs. But about "protecting" the Treasury Department from its own Secretary.
It's hard to understand how the 20 Democratic state Attorneys General even had standing to file such a suit, let alone prevail in their request for a temporary restraining order.
But it gets worse.
According to reporting by the team at EKO, it was done through an ex parte order blocking Treasury officials from accessing their own department's data. No warning. No chance to respond. No opportunity to present evidence. Just a wall between the people elected to fix the system and the system itself.
And then there's the small matter that Engelmayer's wife was once a USAID contractor, although her involvement with USAID seems to have ended back in 2008, well before he was confirmed to the Bench.
Judge McConnell inserted himself into the freeze on spending controversy when some 20 Democrat state attorneys general, co-led by Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha, sued the Trump administration to stop a funding freeze to various programs nationwide.
McConnell first issued a temporary restraining order (TRO), putting the freeze on hold, and then a subsequent order Monday directing the Trump administration to abide by his TRO as he found they had violated it.
McConnell wrote in his initial order, "Are there some aspects of the pause that might be legal and appropriate constitutionally for the Executive to take? The Court imagines there are, but it is equally sure that there are many instances in the Executive Orders' wide-ranging, all-encompassing, and ambiguous 'pause' of critical funding that are not. The Court must act in these early stages of the litigation under the "worst case scenario" because the breadth and ambiguity of the Executive's action makes it impossible to do otherwise. The Court finds that, based on the evidence before it now, some of which is set forth below, the States are likely to succeed on the merits of some, if not all, their claims."
In other words, the Judge anticipates ruling that states must continue to receive fraudulent or other unjustified payments from the federal government.
The Capitol Switchboard is (202-224-3121), we urge CHQ readers and friends to call their Representative and Senators to demand they impeach US District Judges Paul Engelmayer and John McConnell Jr. for their outrageous breach of the Constitution's separation of powers in these cases.
