Key Highlights
- Eric Swalwell's high-profile lawsuit accusing a senior Trump housing official of brazen misconduct landed in his court.
- Some Republicans have criticized Boasberg's docket, given his assignment to an earlier legal challenge involving President Donald Trump's removal of hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to a Salvadoran prison in March and his role in presiding over the so-called "Signalgate" lawsuit, which, as of this writing, is all but mooted.
- But like other federal courts, the D. C.
- District Court assigns its cases to judges via a randomized computer system — a process that former federal judges outlined to Fox News Digital in a series of recent interviews. A Fox News Digital review of the cases assigned to judges in the U. S.
- District Court in Washington, D. C., showed the same — putting Boasberg on the lower side of Trump-related case assignments compared to some of his colleagues in the district.
