Florida congressman moves to impeach judge who ordered convicted Cuban plane hijacker freed from ICE

FIRST ON FOX - Republican Congressman Greg Steube from Florida has filed an nonfiction of impeachment against Judge John E. Steele, Fox News Digital has learned.

House Resolution 1431 accuses Senior U.S. District Judge John E. Steele of the Middle District of Florida of committing "high crimes and misdemeanors" by ordering the merchandise of convicted Cuban level hijacker Miakel Guerra Morales from ICE custody.

Morales, who is an amerciable migrant from Cuba, was released from ICE custody pursuing Judge Steele's July 8 order.

A courtroom gavel, left, is seen with an inset of Maikel Guerra Morales, right. (iStock; DHS)

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"This is precisely the benignant of activistic judicial overreach the American radical are sick of. Judge Steele had each ineligible justification to support a convicted level hijacker disconnected our streets, and helium chose to fto him spell instead," Congressman Steube said.

Florida State Sen. Greg Steube sponsored the measure successful the Florida Senate. "If you look astatine the past of wherefore we arsenic a state bash (daylight saving), it doesn’t marque immoderate consciousness successful today’s world." ( )

In 2003, Morales and respective others assaulted a formation unit and hijacked a Cuban commuter airplane that helium boarded successful Nueva Gerona, DHS says.

Morales forced the aviator to alert much than 100 miles northbound to Monroe County, Florida, wherever it yet landed astatine Key West International Airport.

The U.S. Marshals Service arrested him and charged him with craft piracy and conspiracy to interfere with a formation unit erstwhile the formation arrived.

He was convicted and sentenced to 22 years down bars.

People locomotion connected the thoroughfare during a blackout successful Havana, Cuba, Monday, July 6, 2026. (Ramon Espinosa)

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Despite the conviction, Judge Steele, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton, ordered Morales' merchandise past week, citing a Supreme Court ruling governing the detention of overseas nationals whose removal cannot beryllium carried out.

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"The Government cannot fastener individuals successful a compartment indefinitely arsenic a workaround for a stalled deportation process," the bid said.

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