U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg, who has been assigned to President Trump’s Venezuelan deportation case, has now been assigned to the lawsuit about the Trump administration’s use of a Signal group chat.

Boasberg was assigned Wednesday to the lawsuit that alleged top Trump officials violated their obligations under the Federal Records Act (FRA) regarding the Signal messages about the recent attack on the Houthi rebels in Yemen.

The lawsuit, filed in Washington, D.C. District Court by government watchdog group American Oversight, argues that the administration officials violated the law through the “unlawful destruction of federal records” after the Signal chats were set to disappear after a certain number of weeks.

The FRA was amended in 2021 and determined that electronic messages from agency heads are determined to be records that must be kept.

The watchdog group argues the Signal messages, like other recorded information from a federal agency, “must be preserved and safeguarded against removal or loss,” per FRA rules.

The defendants in the case, listed as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, are expected to know not to delete or remove these records, the suit argues.

American Oversight is asking the judge to issue an emergency injunctive relief and permanent injunction ordering defendants to preserve all material under FRA rules.

The suit is a result of the scandal tied to the release of screenshots from The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg after he was inadvertently added to the Signal group, along with Vice President Vance, Rubio, Hegseth, national security adviser Mike Waltz, Gabbard and other top staff.

In his reporting, Goldberg showed that Walz had set some of the messages in the group to disappear after one week and some after four.

Boasberg has notably clashed with the Trump administration over its deportation flights of Venezuelan Tren de Aragua members.

The judge has drawn the ire of the administration after he ordered the planes carrying the gang members to not leave the U.S. or turn around if it already had. The administration claimed that the planes were already out of U.S. territory when Boasberg’s order came down, but the American Civil Liberties Union has suggested that the administration purposefully defied the court order.

Boasberg has pressed the Trump administration on the logistics, and become an enemy of top officials, with several calling for him to be impeached.

With the addition of the Signal-related lawsuit, Boasberg, who was appointed by former President Obama, now oversees four lawsuits against the second Trump administration, including Erie County, N.Y.’s lawsuit challenging a freeze in its federal grant for the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program, as well as The Project on Government Oversight’s lawsuit looking to force the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to be covered by FOIA.

Boasberg has been randomly assigned to each of these cases.