A Republican member of Congress announced he’d introduced an article of impeachment against a Washington federal judge who ruled against the Trump administration in a public health case, the latest effort to remove judges hearing challenges to the president’s actions.
In a resolution posted on X on Monday, Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) claimed Senior Judge John Bates of the US District Court for the District of Columbia engaged in misconduct and promoted a “grave moral evil” by ordering health agencies to restore certain webpages with health information and datasets.
The webpages were taken down under Donald Trump’s executive order to ...