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

This resolution would impeach John Edwin Steele, a senior federal district judge in the Middle District of Florida, and send one article of impeachment to the Senate. The article concerns his July 8, 2026 order granting a habeas corpus petition and releasing Miakel Guerra Morales, a Cuban national previously convicted of aircraft piracy, from an ICE detention facility. The article states that the judge did not wait for the typical 180-day detention period, ordered release within 24 hours, and did not adequately consider federal rules allowing detention of people found to pose a special danger to the public. It states that the judge should be removed from office.

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