Federal judge James Boasberg is the target of an impeachment effort by President Trump and House Republicans after questioning the administration's decision to disregard an order.The big picture: A legal battle broke out in the White House after the chief judge of the D.

The Justice Department is pushing in court to have Boasberg removed from the case, and Trump escalated his administration's conflict with the judiciary on Tuesday in a social media post that called the judge an unelected “troublemaker and agitator" and urged his impeachment in capital letters.