DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—An Obama-appointed judge may have violated federal law by greenlighting a Biden Department of Justice effort to secretly secure Republican senators’ private cellphone data, legal experts say.
Chief Judge of the D.C. District Court James Boasberg signed orders in 2023 preventing cell phone carriers from notifying 11 Republican members of Congress about special counsel Jack Smith’s subpoenas seeking their cell phone data from Jan. 4 and Jan. 7, 2021.
The subpoenas were part of Smith’s investigation to build his 2020 election case against President Donald Trump. They sought call “detail records for inbound and outbound calls, text messages, direct connect, and voicemail messages” from Republican members, though he did not request contents of any messages, according to records released by Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley…
“Congress enacts laws,” Empower Oversight Founder Jason Foster wrote on X. “The perma-Executive and Judicial Branches simply ignore them. If your elected Congress can’t or won’t control unelected bureaucrats in DC, then representative gov’t is merely an illusion.”…
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