Gill said in a statement that Republicans would not tolerate “radical, politically motivated judges illegally and unconstitutionally stopping the President from carrying out his mandate.”

“We will not stand by as radical activist Judge James Boasberg tramples on the Constitution out of political spite for the President,” Gill said. “The American people gave us a mandate to get criminal illegal aliens out of our country, and that’s exactly what we intend to do. Judge Boasberg has gravely overstepped his authority, usurping the Constitutional power of the Commander in Chief.”

Co-sponsors of the impeachment articles include Reps. Eli Crane (R-AZ), Buddy Carter (R-GA), Mike Collins (R-GA), Barry Moore (R-AL), and Andrew Clyde (R-GA).

Crane and Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) have introduced their own articles of impeachment against other judges. Crane filed impeachment articles against U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer over blocking government access to Treasury records, and Ogles filed against U.S. District Judge John Bates over “LGBTQ propaganda” on the websites of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health and Human Services, and Food and Drug Administration.

Clyde said he was drafting articles against U.S. District John McConnell Jr. for being a “partisan activist weaponizing our judicial system to stop President Trump’s funding freeze on woke and wasteful government spending.”

The argument over the deportations began over the weekend after a group of 238 alleged Venezuelan Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gang members were sent from the United States to a prison in El Salvador. Boasberg temporarily blocked deportations for 14 days on Saturday night, but two deportation flights had already departed the U.S.

White House officials argued in a court filing that they did not defy the ruling, arguing in part that it was delivered orally and not in written form and that the flights had already left U.S. airspace when the ruling was issued. However, the judge requested more information on why the administration did not turn the planes around after several news reports indicated there were opportunities to do so.

The Trump administration requested that Boasberg be removed from the case in a separate court motion. The president called the judge a “Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator” in a social media post, adding, “HE DIDN’T WIN ANYTHING! I WON FOR MANY REASONS, IN AN OVERWHELMING MANDATE, BUT FIGHTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION MAY HAVE BEEN THE NUMBER ONE REASON FOR THIS HISTORIC VICTORY.”

In a rare public statement, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said the impeachment of federal judges is “not an appropriate response” to disagreement with their rulings.

“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” said Roberts, an appointee of former President George W. Bush. “Normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”

TRUMP WANTS IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE AFTER WHITE HOUSE SUGGESTED OTHERWISE

Under congressional rules, it would take two-thirds of the Senate, or 67 senators, to remove a federal judge. If all Republicans voted in favor, they would also need at least 13 Democrats to support the impeachment.

Only 15 federal judges have been impeached, with even fewer removed from the bench, according to the Federal Judicial Center. Reasons for impeachment largely centered on judges being intoxicated or mentally unfit to serve on the bench. A few were impeached by the House for abuse of power, but most were acquitted by the Senate or resigned before they could be removed.