A federal judge who blocked the Trump administration from ending protections for Somalis in the US is facing a new impeachment threat from President Donald Trump’s allies in Congress. Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., has filed an impeachment resolution against Judge Allison Burroughs, a federal judge on the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Background

Burroughs issued a stay temporarily blocking the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalis, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), amid an ongoing lawsuit by African Communities Together arguing the move was made based on racially discriminatory grounds.

Ogles’ resolution accused Burroughs of having ‘defied the authority of both Federal law and the Supreme Court.’ The order came despite a Supreme Court ruling in June that significantly curbed lower courts’ ability to block TPS decisions.

The latest stay order is based on an amended complaint by the plaintiffs aiming to account for that ruling. Ogles argued in his impeachment resolution, ‘In issuing this stay, Judge Burroughs attempted to get around the Supreme Court’s ruling in Mullin v. Doe by entertaining spurious allegations of racial and national-origin discrimination against an Administration that has chosen to not renew a single temporary protected status designation.’

‘This judicial activist’s obstruction of the people’s will must be stopped,’ Ogles told Fox News Digital. ‘Judge Burroughs must be impeached.’

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