Lawmakers Seek Answers: How Does Judge Boasberg Keep Getting Assigned to Trump Cases?

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Three GOP members of Congress are demanding answers as to why Judge James Boasberg, Chief Justice of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, keeps getting assigned to cases having to do with President Donald Trump.

Representatives Jim Jordan (R-OH), Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Chip Roy (R-TX) have sent a letter seeking answers to Angela D. Caesar, the Clerk of the Court for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

ACTIVIST JUDGES: How does Judge Boasberg keep getting assigned to cases involving President Trump? @Jim_Jordan, @repdarrellissa and @RepChipRoy are demanding answers. pic.twitter.com/ljWGj3HweD

— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) May 5, 2025

With the President just over 100 days into his latest term, Trump has been slapped with more than 30 nationwide injunctions so far.

The letter from the congressmen reads, “Many of these nationwide injunctions have raised concerns that Article III judges are exceeding their constitutional authority by replacing the policy decisions of the duly elected President with their own preferences, eroding public trust in the integrity and fairness of our judicial system.”

The letter goes on to mention that many high profile cases challenging Trump’s policy decisions have been filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

The three congressmen specifically question why so many of those cases are ending up before judge Boasberg, including the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) and cases involving the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and administration officials’ handling of the Signal app.

Their letter says, “As Congress considers potential legislative reforms to address the abuse of nationwide injunctions and adjust the national distribution and local assignment of cases challenging Executive Branch policy decisions, we write to request information about the District Court’s assignment of cases.”

At issue is whether Boasberg is being assigned to Trump cases on a random basis or not.

In the letter, the congressmen are seeking answers directly from the clerk herself, stating, “While the District Court’s allocation process is intended to produce an ‘equal distribution of cases to all judges,’ in practice the distribution of cases can be unequal. The Committee cannot independently verify the randomness of case assignments because the composition of assignment decks is kept secret. The only individuals to whom the court clerk is permitted to disclose this information are members of the Calendar and Case Management Committee and the Chief Judge.”

The congressmen request that Caesar provide information from the following cases: Project on Government Oversight v. Trump from February 21, 2025; J. G.G. v. Trump from March 15, 2025; Erie County. v. Corporation for National and Community Service from March 17, 2025; and American Oversight v. Hegseth from March 25, 2025.

Caesar is also asked to provide the process by which the presiding judge was assigned, to describe any deviations from the standard assignment process and to provide the number of judges who were eligible for assignment to the case when it was assigned.

The three members of the Judiciary Committee have requested that the material they are seeking be submitted no later than May 19, 2025.