Mike Johnson’s latest headache: The hard right’s doomed push to impeach judges

Hard-right House Republicans have a new project — impeaching federal judges who have questioned President Donald Trump’s powers — and it’s quickly turning into the latest headache for Speaker Mike Johnson.

The push to remove jurists who have sought to halt Trump’s firings of federal employees, access to sensitive government systems and deportations of alleged foreign gang members has virtually no chance of succeeding, given the 67-vote requirement in the Senate for removal.

But it is nonetheless quickly turning into a major distraction for House GOP leaders after Trump himself called on social media Tuesday for the Washington-based judge who ordered the grounding of some deportation flights to be “IMPEACHED!!!” It threatens to sap political capital and antagonize key GOP blocs just as Johnson is hoping to put Trump’s sweeping domestic policy agenda into overdrive.