I first heard from Skink, no radical lunatic leftist he, that he was outraged by his weasel Congressman, Greg Steube.

A pal died Tuesday night–Jay Steele, a DJ in my town. The admin and HMS are outraged Jay ordered ICE to release a Cuban hijacker, who was being held after he did 22 years, but no country would take him.

Today, after Wikipedia updated to show Jay’s death, a nitwit local congressman filed to impeach my dead pal.

Senior District Judge Jay Steele passed on July 14. You could love him or hate him, but either way, most decent people do not speak ill of the dead. Indeed, when an icon of the right was killed, people were outraged that left wing voices applauded his demise. I was outraged. The same, unfortunately, was not true after the passing of Robert Mueller, when our president twitted “Good, I’m glad he’s dead.” Graciousness was never Trump’s style.

But then, Representative Greg Steube from Florida 17 is no Trump. If you’re not from his district, you likely never heard of him. He’s that inconsequential, one of 435 firmly planted on the backbench of nobodies who yell out yea or nay as their told. Having little opportunity to get his name in the paper, the death of a federal district judge was just the opportunity to put on a show. So he did.

Rep. Steube Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against Judge Who Released Cuban Plane Hijacker from ICE Custody

WASHINGTON–U.S. Representative Greg Steube announced today he introduced articles of impeachment against John E. Steele, Senior District Judge for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, for high crimes and misdemeanors after he ordered the release of a convicted plane hijacker from ICE detention, disregarding the immediate danger the individual posed to the public and giving the executive branch less than 24 hours to appeal

“This is exactly the kind of activist judicial overreach the American people are sick of. ICE had a convicted aircraft pirate in custody while pursuing his removal, and Judge Steele ordered him released within 24 hours despite obvious public safety concerns,” said Rep. Greg Steube. “Judges do not get to override the safety of the American people because it is inconvenient for their docket. I introduced these articles of impeachment because federal judges must be held accountable when they abuse their office and put criminal aliens ahead of the communities they are sworn to protect.”

The Department of Homeland Security also condemned Judge Steele’s decision, with DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis calling it “yet another example of an activist judge trying to thwart President Trump’s mandate from the American people to remove criminal illegal aliens from our country.”

Judge Steele was no activist. But he was an honorable judge who did his job, even when it meant releasing a Cuban hijacker who had served 22 years in prison. Not that Steube gave a damn, or had any comprehension of what the law required.

On July 8, 2026, Judge Steele granted a habeas corpus petition and ordered the release of Miakel Guerra Morales from an ICE detention facility. Guerra Morales is a Cuban national who took part in the 2003 hijacking of a commuter aircraft in Cuba, forcing the pilot to land in Key West, Florida. He was sentenced to 264 months in prison for aircraft piracy and conspiracy to interfere with a flight crew. After completing his sentence, ICE detained Guerra Morales in December 2025 while pursuing his removal from the country.

The articles of impeachment allege that Judge Steele abused his judicial discretion, ignored federal regulations authorizing continued detention of aliens who pose a special danger to the public, and ordered Guerra Morales’ release within 24 hours, denying the executive branch the opportunity to pursue appellate review. The resolution states that Judge Steele cited an alleged case management backlog as a basis for releasing an individual convicted of aircraft piracy back into American communities.

The resolution argues that Judge Steele’s ruling placed the interests of a criminal illegal alien above the security of the United States and the American people, and that his conduct constitutes an egregious dereliction of duty unbecoming of a federal judicial officer.

Steube’s “explanation” of the decision in Miakel Guerra Morales v. Field 14 Office Director, Miami, et al., granting the Writ of Habeas Corpus, was based upon the government’s failure to show that Morales could be removed as no other country would take him.

In short, Respondents have had more than three years since Guerra Morales’s order of removal—and more than six months since his present detention—to remove him from the United States and are still unable to articulate a specific plan for his removal to Cuba, Mexico, or another country. And while there may be some possibility that Mexico will eventually accept Guerra Morales— notwithstanding his criminal history and CAT status—“that is not same as a significant likelihood that [he] will be accepted in the reasonably foreseeable future.” Arenado-Borges, 2025 WL 3687518, at *4 (emphasis added, quotations omitted).

That left Judge Steele with two options, either to leave Morales imprisoned in perpetuity, after the completion of his prison sentence, which the law would not tolerate, or release him. It’s not as if the government didn’t have three years to deal with Morales’ deportation, and failed miserably. Judge Steele did nothing more than follow the law.

There’s no reason to belabor the obvious. Judge Steele was deceased, and impeaching a dead judge is the epitome of pointlessness, on the one hand, and absurdity on the other, since the deceased is obviously incapable of defending himself. But it wasn’t bad enough that this mutt Steube would introduce articles of impeachment after the judge died, but without any basis other than the fact that he  — or more to the point, the Trump administration — didn’t like Judge Steele’s decision.

RESOLUTION

Impeaching John Edwin Steele, Senior District Judge
for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida,
for high crimes and misdemeanors.

ARTICLE I: ABUSEOF JUDICIAL DISCRETION,
DERELICTION OF DUTY, AND ENDANGERMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY

The little pissant from Florida 17 wanted to show President Trump what a player he was, impeaching a dead judge for making a decision that the law required, even if it made Trump sad. Maybe now some people will know this weasel’s name, although not for the reasons he hoped.