U.S. District Judge James Boasberg — who has already angered the Trump administration over his rulings on Venezuelan deportees — has been assigned to preside over a lawsuit brought against the administration over the use of Signal in a chat discussing strikes on Houthi terrorists in Yemen.
Wednesday morning, Boasberg, the chief judge at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, was assigned in the case of American Oversight against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other administration figures, according to a court document shared on X by Politico’s Kyle Cheney.
Boasberg has drawn ire from President Donald Trump and his administration for his examination of the use of an 18th-century wartime law to deport accused Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador.
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