D.C. and FISA Judge Boasberg, who gets a disproportionate share of the "take Trump down" cases was originally appointed by BUSH, then elevated by OBAMA, then put on the secret FiSA court that allowed the spying on the Trump campaign and presidency by BUSH appointee SCOTUS Chief Justice ROBERTS.
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Boasberg is often referred to as an."Obama apppintee."
"U.S. District Judge Jeb Boasberg, an Obama appointee who has made a number of controversial anti-Trump rulings after explicitly bragging about thwarting the president’s agenda, is under the microscope after his role in the Russian collusion hoax is under focus."
https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/new-notorious-anti-trump-judge-implicated-in-russiagate-conspiracy-cmc/
But George W. BUSH originally put Boasberg on a D.C. bench [in a local (not U.S. Discrict Court) Superior Court position]
"For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
May 13, 2002
"…President Bush …intends to nominate James E. Boasberg to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for a term of fifteen years. He has served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia since 1996. Boasberg was an associate at Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans in Washington, D.C., from 1995 to 1996, and from 1991 to 1994, he was an associate at Keker & Van Nest in San Francisco, California. He served as a law clerk for the Honorable Dorothy W. Nelson, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, from 1990 to 1991. Boasberg earned both his bachelor's and law degrees from Yale University.
https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/05/20020513-16.html
Obama moved Boasberg over to the federal bench from S.C. Superior Court
"President Obama Names Three to United States District Court, 6/17/10
"WASHINGTON- Today, President Obama nominated Judge James E. Boasberg, Amy Berman Jackson, and Justice Sue E. Myerscough to seats on the United States District Court."
"Judge Boasberg received his J.D. in 1990 from Yale Law School, his Master of Studies in 1986 from Oxford University, and his B.A. in 1985 from Yale College."
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/realitycheck/the-press-office/president-obama-names-three-united-states-district-court-61710
Chief Justice Roberts [a BUSH appointee] nominated Boasberg to FISA
SCOTUS' "Chief Justice John Roberts has named two judges to the secretive courts that oversee government surveillance in spy and terrorism cases. Roberts named James E. Boasberg, a district court judge in Washington, to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court effective May 19, [2014]."
https://legalnews.com/Home/Articles?DataId=1385885
FISA appointment
Judge, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, 2014-2021; presiding judge, 2020-2021
Alien Terrorist Removal Court
Judge, Alien Terrorist Removal Court, 2020-2025; chief judge, 2020-2025
https://www.fjc.gov/node/1393651
"In 1996 Congress created the Alien Terrorist Removal Court as a special court and authorized the Chief Justice of the United States to designate five U.S. district court judges to review applications for the removal from the United States of alien terrorists. Judges serve for staggered, renewable five-year terms and must be drawn from different judicial circuits. The Chief Justice may appoint to the court the same judges designated to serve on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The provisions for the court were part of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (110 Stat. 1214), a broad legislative effort to combat international terrorism."
https://www.fjc.gov/history/courts/alien-terrorist-removal-court-1996-present
See also, https://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/faculty_publications/1465/ ("We examine the dynamic history of this forgotten court, analyze its structure, and propose commonsense legislative revision that would render this important national security law enforcement tool viable.")
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Not so Fun Fact - Boasberg is also considered a "feeder judge," who sends many of his clerks to the U.S. Supreme Court.
https://abovethelaw.com/2015/08/supreme-court-clerk-hiring-watch-non-traditional-feeder-judges/