The White House is already dealing with a media headache over the leaked Signal chats that included communications between some of President Donald Trump's top officials, but the situation just took a turn for the worse.

According to Breitbart, the same judge who blocked the Trump administration's deportation flights of Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang members is the same judge who was assigned to a case involving the Signal chat debacle.

The Obama-appointed James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has been assigned to the Signal chat leak case brought against five of Trump's officials by a group called American Oversight.

The judge's assignment has already drawn steep criticism.

What's happening?

The group brought the lawsuit against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National Security Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and the National Archives and Records Administration.

The organization used the Federal Records Act (FRA) to bring the lawsuit against the officials.

In its filing with the court, it requested that the court find "messages and communications sent through the Signal application in the course of conducting agency business are agency records subject to the FRA."

JUST IN: Judge James Boasberg has been assigned to the Signalgate lawsuit. pic.twitter.com/nrLv9EQNyO

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) March 26, 2025

President Trump has already publicly said that he believes Judge Baosberg should be impeached for his previous ruling on the deportation flights

Breitbart noted:

Boasberg is the judge who ruled to block Trump’s deportation of illegal aliens suspected of being TdA gang members after the president invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act on March 15.

The judge's assignment to the Signal chat case generated plenty of feedback across social media.

Social media reaction

Users across social media reacted to the news of Boasberg being assigned to the case.

"You really can’t script this. The same week the Trump admin invokes the state secrets privilege to deny Boasberg info, he is assigned the lawsuit over the Trump administration’s apparent carelessness with state secrets," Kyle Cheney wrote on X.

Another X user wrote, "Find out who put the loser, Goldberg, on the chat, then take appropriate action."

Only time will tell how the judge rules in the case, but if one were to make a bet, it would probably be safe to bet it won't be in Trump's favor.