Surprise, surprise. The John Bolton case has been assigned to a liberal, activist judge with a long anti-Trump record. Judge Theodore Chuang — an Obama appointee — will oversee the Bolton trial. Rep. Andy Ogles, who filed articles of impeachment against Judge Chuang months ago, is sounding the alarm: CORRUPTION WATCH: Judge Ted Chuang, an Obama-appointed anti-Trump judge, has been assigned the case against John Bolton. He already ruled against @elonmusk and DOGE, and against President Trump when he righteously implemented the travel ban. I filed Articles of Impeachment… pic.twitter.com/Kt3VgnsAar — Rep. Andy Ogles (@RepOgles) October 20, 2025 CORRUPTION WATCH: Judge Ted Chuang, an Obama-appointed anti-Trump judge, has been assigned the case against John Bolton. He already ruled against @elonmusk and DOGE, and against President Trump when he righteously implemented the travel ban. I filed Articles of Impeachment on this judicial hack MONTHS ago. This is not good. During both of President Trump’s terms, this leftist hack made significant rulings that impeded his executive actions. The Bolton case has been assigned to Obama-appointed activist Judge Theodore Chuang. Chuang is the same judge who issued a preliminary injunction blocking President Trump and DOGE from dismantling USAID — he was overturned on appeal. Chuang also blocked Trump’s travel ban… pic.twitter.com/6Jx7lmgafx — Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) October 16, 2025 The Bolton case has been assigned to Obama-appointed activist Judge Theodore Chuang. Chuang is the same judge who issued a preliminary injunction blocking President Trump and DOGE from dismantling USAID — he was overturned on appeal. Chuang also blocked Trump’s travel ban during his first term. He was overturned by SCOTUS. Fox News broke down some of these notorious rulings: The federal judge assigned to oversee the criminal case against former Trump national security advisor John Bolton is an Obama-era appointee who made headlines during both Trump administrations for halting or pausing some of his most sweeping executive orders. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang, a 2014 appointee to the federal bench in Greenbelt, Maryland, is far from the only judge whose rulings have been viewed by Trump allies as unfavorable to the administration. Dozens of judges have issued temporary orders and injunctions during Trump’s second term aimed at pausing or blocking certain directives while courts consider their merits. But Chuang is noteworthy for being the judge who in 2017 issued a nationwide injunction blocking Trump’s revised “travel ban” from taking force. The March 2017 executive order suspended travel for 90 days from six majority-Muslim countries — Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — and paused the entry of asylum seekers for 120 days. Chuang ruled that Trump’s order was likely motivated by anti-Muslim sentiment, describing it as a revised “realization” of Trump’s “long-envisioned Muslim ban,” which he had floated repeatedly during his first presidential bid. “Simply because a decisionmaker made the statements during a campaign does not wipe them from the ‘reasonable memory’ of a ‘reasonable observer,’” he said in the injunction, which was quickly appealed to the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Shortly after Trump took office in January, Chuang again drew the administration’s ire when he blocked Trump and the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from continuing efforts to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development. In a 70-page ruling, he said the actions likely violated the U.S. Constitution “in multiple ways.” The preliminary injunction was the first to attempt to constrain DOGE, which at the time had already cut 98% of USAID staffers. The 4th Circuit also set aside Chuang’s ruling on appeal several weeks later, clearing the way for DOGE to continue its efforts to gut USAID. Chuang has also presided over lesser-known cases, including temporarily suspending in-person requirements for women who were seeking the morning-after pill during the COVID-19 pandemic. That decision was later reversed by the Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision. How is it that these “randomly assigned” cases always ended up in the hands of a Democrat judge? Magically, another high profile case assigned to a rabidly partisan judge. I bet nobody saw that one coming. — Hampton Comes Alive! (@LarryHampton) October 20, 2025 Strange, isn’t it? But don’t worry, I’m sure he’ll be fair… Your thoughts?