A new lawsuit targeting the Trump administration's national security officials over a group chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal, which accidentally included a journalist, was assigned on Wednesday to the same judge who is overseeing President Donald Trump's deportation flight case.

U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg is battling the Trump administration on the deportation flights, after he issued an order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport illegal migrants, who were allegedly members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

Boasberg also took a junket to a privately-funded legal conference in Idaho that featured sponsors and speakers who have expressed clear anti-Trump sentiments, Just the News reported. 

The new lawsuit, which was filed on Tuesday, comes after Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic's editor-in-chief, was added to a chain last week containing messages from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, Vice President JD Vance, and 15 other senior national security officials. The discussion regarded the Defense Department's strike plans on the Houthis in Yemen. 

The lawsuit, filed by the nonpartisan government watchdog, American Oversight, asks the judge to rule that messages and communications sent via Signal when conducting official business are subject to the Federal Records Act.

Several members of Congress have called for Boasberg to recuse himself from the case, with California GOP Rep. Darrell Issa stating that he has already demonstrated a bias against the president. 

"The bias Judge Boasberg has already demonstrated toward President Donald Trump and his administration is unmistakable," Issa told Fox News. "It is not a random act that Boasberg has the case and I don’t expect him to recuse himself, but that would be the best arrangement for the integrity of the court."

The Trump administration asked a federal appeals court to weigh in on Boasberg's authority to usurp Trump's power on issues of national security. The court issued their ruling on Wednesday, declining to lift Boasberg's order to block the deportation flights. 

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.