Florida Republican Congressman Greg Steube has filed an article of impeachment against Judge John Steele after the judge ordered the release from immigration custody of a Cuban man convicted of hijacking a plane. The move reflects continued friction between Republican lawmakers and members of the federal judiciary over rulings seen as obstructing immigration enforcement actions carried out by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Details of the underlying case were not fully provided in the available report, though the article was filed under Fox News' "First on Fox" exclusive reporting banner. The action follows a wider pattern of scrutiny facing judges over immigration-related rulings, exemplified elsewhere by the case of former Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan, who was convicted of felony obstruction for helping an undocumented migrant evade ICE agents and was fined $5,000 without a custodial sentence.