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GOP Rep Drops Receipts On Jasmine Crockett After She Chews Up 2 Minutes Ranting About Protecting Judiciary From Trump

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Republican California Rep. Darrell Issa reminded Democrat Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett on Tuesday that she once supported the impeachment of conservative judicial members after she went on a lengthy rant about protecting judges from President Donald Trump.

Crockett raged against Republican Texas Rep. Brandon Gill, who filed articles of impeachment against U.S. District Judge James Boasberg for attempting to block the deportations of violent gang members, during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing. After she yielded, Issa noted that Crockett co-sponsored articles of impeachment against U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas that had been introduced by Democrat New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

“The problem that we have right now is that if we continue down this road, then we will not have a rule of law because we have people and they’re saying things like ‘ignore the judges’ order,'” Crockett said. “What it means to have law and order in this country is that you follow the order and you go through the appeals process even if you dislike what the judge did.”

“I’ll recognize myself and I’m gonna note that when Ms. Ocasio-Cortez or AOC as we know her, filed articles of impeachment on Justice Thomas and Alito, Ms. Crockett was one of the co-sponsors along with [Democrat Tennessee Rep. Steve] Cohen, both members of this committee,” Issa said. “It does seem interesting that when the shoe was on the other foot, everyone is self-righteous. And I think this is a good example. For the last three hours, I have had to listen to one side talk about impeachment as though it was a nature of this hearing. It is not.”

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Ocasio-Cortez filed articles of impeachment against Alito and Thomas in July 2024 over their alleged “pattern of refusal to recuse from consequential matters before the court in which they hold widely documented financial and personal entanglements,” according to a press release put out by her office. Crockett, along with 18 other congressional members, were listed as co-sponsors of the impeachment articles.

Legal scholars told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the impeachment articles were not brought forth in good faith nor was it grounded in legal precedent.

In March, Boasberg blocked Trump’s deportations efforts under the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th century wartime law that allows a president to deport individuals without them facing an immigration judge. White House press secretary Karoline Levitt said in a March 17 statement that the planes were already in mid-air and outside of U.S. territory by the time the ruling came down, allowing the deportees to land and be detained in El Salvador.

Trump invoked the law to fast-track the deportations of over 200 members of Tren de Agua, a violent Venezuelan criminal gang, and members of MS-13 to El Salvador and Honduras. Gill argued in his impeachment articles that Boasberg “abused his power of the judiciary” in an attempt to “usurp President Trump’s clear plenary, Article II powers as commander in chief.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday that 17 violent criminals from Tren de Agua and MS-13 were transferred to El Salvador in a “successful counter-terrorism operation” on Sunday.