US judge in Trump deportation case assigned lawsuit over Signal scandal


FILE PHOTO: The Signal messaging app logo is seen on a smartphone, in front of the same displayed same logo, in this illustration taken, January 13, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo

(Reuters) - The U.S. judge whom President Donald Trump has argued should be impeached for blocking him from using wartime powers to deport Venezuelan migrants is set to hear a new lawsuit over administration officials' use of the messaging app Signal to share highly sensitive military plans.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington was assigned on Wednesday to a lawsuit alleging Trump officials violated federal record-keeping laws by using a Signal group chat to discuss looming military action against Yemen's Houthis.

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