Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) led a group of GOP senators in a press conference detailing then-special counsel Jack Smith's "fishing expedition" that FBI documents show involved nearly 200 subpoenas that targeted over 400 individuals and businesses in what they described as an attempt to investigate the "entire Republican political apparatus."

“I’ve obtained through legally protected whistleblower disclosures,” Grassley said. “197 subpoenas were issued by Jack Smith and his team. These subpoenas were issued to 34 individuals and 163 businesses, including financial institutions.

“The subpoena requested records and communications related to over 430 individuals and organizations — all of them appear to be aimed at Republicans,” he continued.

Joe Biden's Watergate

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), one of nine senators whose phone call data was subpoenaed, said, “Arctic Frost is Joe Biden’s Watergate.”

“Merrick Garland was a fundamentally corrupt attorney general. Jack Smith was a fundamentally corrupt prosecutor. This was a political enemies list from the beginning,” he said while holding the court order that demanded AT&T hand over his cell records.

Cruz also said that his cell phone company, AT&T, resisted the subpoena but the order prevented them from telling him about it for a year.

The judge who issued the order, US District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg, now faces calls by the GOP for impeachment.

Boasberg was “abusing his power” by asserting in the order there were “reasonable grounds to believe that such disclosure will result in destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation of potential witnesses and serious jeopardy to the investigation," Cruz said.

“If a judge signs an order reaching a factual conclusion for which there is zero evidence whatsoever, that judge is abusing his power. I am right now calling on the House of Representatives to impeach Judge Boasberg," he concluded.

Get Boasberg out

Boasberg has been in GOP crosshairs for a while now because he has ruled in cases against President Donald Trump both before and after the election.

Before the election, he presided over the D.C. version of the 2020 election case and heard many of the January 6 prosecutions.

After the election, he ordered Trump to turn airplanes around in the air that were carrying deported illegal immigrants and threatened to hold Trump in contempt for not doing so.

He also got assigned to the case involving the Signal app, which some of Trump's officials are accused of misusing to talk about defense strategy.

As far back as May, lawmakers have wondered how Boasberg keeps getting assigned to Trump cases and have noted that it seems a bit unusual, if not prejudicial.

Now, it seems that their efforts will be ramping up, although it would be unlikely for enough Democrats to vote with Republicans to actually get him removed.