On Wednesday, a House Republican unveiled articles of impeachment against a federal judge in New York who temporarily restricted Trump administration officials, including the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), from accessing a payment system of the Treasury Department.
The articles of impeachment introduced by Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ) accuse U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer, an Obama appointee, of high crimes and misdemeanors after his recent order that favored 19 Democrat state attorneys general who had sued over DOGE’s ability to access the system that reportedly oversees trillions of dollars in payments each year.
When Crane shared his articles to X on Wednesday, presidential adviser Elon Musk — who has been spearheading the DOGE effort to reduce government waste — responded, “Good.” Crane said in a reply: “If these activist judges want to be politicians, they…
