‘Partisan zealots’: Senator calls for impeachment of anti-Trump judge who schemed to spy on phone records
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has called for the immediate impeachment of an anti-Trump federal judge who has been revealed to have taken part in a scheme to spy on the telephone records of a long list of sitting U.S. senators.
It is Judge James Boasberg who is the subject of criticism.
He’s already, according to an analysis by experts, been revealed as a judge who made himself “like a foreign diplomat” in insisting the Trump administration following his agenda on foreign affairs.
Boasberg long has fought President Donald Trump’s efforts to secure the nation’s borders and remove illegal alien criminals.
He’s gone so far as to try to enforce his own order despite a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court overturning him.
He was the judge who even tried to order Trump to tell airplanes carrying illegal alien criminals, that already had left American airspace, to return to the U.S. with the criminals.
Now Cruz is calling for action regarding the political activist sitting as a judge.
I am, right now, calling on the House of Representatives to impeach Judge Boasberg.
Mark my words: there will be accountability for these partisan zealots who sought to corrupt the DOJ and judiciary to attack their enemies. pic.twitter.com/J8lkD1fvmL
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) October 29, 2025
The senator’s comments came following revelations that the Biden administration, with Boasberg’s cooperation, issued hundreds of subpoenas for telephone records of Republicans under its scheme to create a number of lawfare cases against Trump – and other Republicans.
Online commenters have suggested the investigation, run by ex-special counsel Jack Smith, was intended to create additional charges against Trump and other GOP leaders should Kamala Harris have won the 2024 election. She failed.
Cruz turned fiery during a news conference about Biden’s “Arctic Fost” investigation.
“The Biden Justice Department signed off on issuing subpoenas for the phone records of at least nine U.S. senators. Twenty percent of the Republicans in the United States Senate were the target of this fishing expedition. They did so in complete contravention of the Constitution—of separation of powers, of the Speech and Debate Clause, of free speech, of basic rights of privacy,” Cruz charged.
He continued, “I want to talk to you about one of those subpoenas. One of those subpoenas went from Jack Smith to AT&T, seeking my cell phone communications. It went to AT&T, and I actually want to commend AT&T for doing the right thing. AT&T is based in Texas. AT&T looked at that subpoena, and they went to their legal counsel and said, ‘What should we do with this subpoena?’ And their legal counsel said, ‘You cannot comply because this is protected by the Speech and Debate Clause of the U.S. Constitution.’ And so AT&T declined to comply—did not hand over my cell phone records. Now, one might ask: ordinarily, a phone company being asked to hand over the phone records of a sitting senator would notify that senator.”
But the company didn’t, as Boasberg, “ludicrously” claimed, in support of a gag order, that there were “reasonable grounds” to think disclosure would lead to “destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy to the investigation.”
Cruz called out the judge.
“Now, I can tell you right now, there is precisely zero evidence to conclude that I am likely to destroy or tamper with evidence or to intimidate potential witnesses. Zero evidentiary basis for that. This order is an abuse of power. This order is a weaponized legal system,” the senator charged.
He said the judge’s actions are a textbook case of abuse.
“I am right now calling on the House of Representatives to impeach Judge Boasberg. Judge Boasberg put his robe down, stood up, and said, ‘Sign me up to be part of the partisan vendetta against 20% of the Republicans in the Senate.'” Cruiz said. “That is a dereliction of duty and a violation of the judicial oath.”