Obama-appointed judge faces fresh impeachment threat after blocking Trump TPS order for Somalis
FIRST ON FOX: The federal judge who blocked the Trump administration from ending protections for Somalis in the U.S. is facing a new impeachment threat from President Donald Trump's allies in Congress.
Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., has filed an impeachment resolution against Judge Allison Burroughs, a federal judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Burroughs issued a stay on Friday temporarily blocking the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalis, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), amid an ongoing lawsuit by African Communities Together arguing the move was made based on racially discriminatory grounds.
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Ogles' resolution, first obtained by Fox News Digital, accused Burroughs of having "defied the authority of both Federal law and the Supreme Court."
"There is no serious debate about what is going on in these cases—defiance, obstruction, and delay," DHS General Counsel James Percival posted on X on Friday.
The order came despite a Supreme Court ruling in June that significantly curbed lower courts' ability to block TPS decisions.
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But the latest stay order is based on an amended complaint by the plaintiffs aiming to account for that ruling.
Ogles argued in his impeachment resolution, "In issuing this stay, Judge Burroughs attempted to get around the Supreme Court’s ruling in Mullin v. Doe by entertaining spurious allegations of racial and national-origin discrimination against an Administration that has chosen to not renew a single temporary protected status designation."
"This judicial activist's obstruction of the people's will must be stopped," Ogles told Fox News Digital. "Judge Burroughs must be impeached."
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Fox News Digital reached out to the Massachusetts district court for a response to Ogles' impeachment threat earlier Monday.
TPS is a humanitarian program providing safe harbor in the U.S. for people who fled natural disasters or war in their home countries.
Ogles' impeachment resolution is one of several that has been filed by Trump allies in Congress so far during the president's second term.
A significant effort to pursue impeachment against U.S. federal judge James Boasberg fell flat last year after senior House Republicans argued it was not the most effective way to rein in what they called "rogue" judges.
But Fox News Digital first reported earlier this year that conservatives would begin their campaign to remove who they describe as activist judges from the bench again.
Burroughs was appointed to the bench in 2014 by then-President Barack Obama.
