The efforts of President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the Department of Government Efficiency to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in federal spending have been seemingly challenged at every turn by Democrats and activist groups, and some partisan judges have ruled in their favor against the administration.

Now one member of Congress, Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ), is looking to go on the offensive against those federal judges by impeaching and removing them from the bench, according to The Washington Times.

The Arizona congressman has already filed articles of impeachment against a federal judge in New York who imposed an absurdly broad temporary restraining order against Musk and DOGE to block them from doing their necessary work in the U.S. Treasury Department.

Biased and partisan judges should be impeached

In a press release on Friday, Rep. Crane announced that, just 10 days after he'd first floated the idea, articles of impeachment had been formally filed against U.S. District Judge Paul Englemayer, who'd been appointed to the bench by former President Barack Obama.

That judge, in reaction to an "emergency" lawsuit filed over a weekend by a coalition of 19 Democratic state attorneys general, hurriedly imposed a wide-ranging temporary restraining order against the DOGE and the Treasury Department that was interpreted by many to even block the Senate-confirmed Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent from doing his job.

"Activist judges cannot stop the President from executing his Article II powers. White House employees have every right to access the very systems they oversee," Crane said in a statement. "President Trump campaigned on rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse from the federal government, and the American people gave him a mandate to do so."

"This is obviously judicial overreach and a clear threat to democracy," he added. "If these partisan judges want to be politicians, they should resign and run for office."

Articles of impeachment officially filed

In the articles of impeachment against Judge Englemayer, he was accused of "abuse of power" in that the judge, "in violation of his oath of office, did knowingly and willfully use his judicial position to advance personal interests and political gain."

After criticizing the broad reach of Englemayer's order, the impeachment articles stated, "This conduct has resulted in apparent bias and favoritism, representing an abuse of judicial power and is detrimental to the orderly functioning of the judiciary. Using the powers of his high office, Judge Engelmayer interfered with the will of the people."

"In so doing, Judge Engelmayer used the powers of his position to engage in actions that overstep his judicial authority. By making a political decision outside the scope of his legal duties, he compromised the impartiality of our judicial system," the articles concluded. "Wherefore, Judge Engelmayer is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors and should be removed from office."

Crane is "open to impeaching" other judges

On his X account, Rep. Crane made and shared numerous posts about his impeachment articles against Judge Englemayer and even suggested that other federal judges who've similarly issued biased and partisan rulings to block various Trump administration actions should meet the same fate.

In one Saturday morning post, the congressman wrote, "I’m open to impeaching others as well. They are out of control, and Congress has a duty to check this kind of radical partisan abuse. Who is with me?"

For what it is worth, Englemayer only issued an initial "emergency" ruling on the lawsuit to block DOGE at the U.S. Treasury and that case was shortly thereafter reassigned to another federal judge in New York, U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas, a Biden appointee.

According to Fox News, Vargas ruled on Friday to impose a preliminary injunction against DOGE and the Treasury, though that order didn't go as far as the Democratic state AGs had demanded -- and, notably, that decision was issued after Vargas was compelled to walk back and clarify the broad initial TRO issued by Englemayer more than a week earlier.