Frederick Banks v. Trump Articles of Impeachment

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

FREDERICK BANKS, Case No. 2:21-cv-01042-ODW (GJS)

Petitioner ORDER DISMISSING PETITION v.

TRUMP ARTICLES OF

IMPEACHMENT INCITMENT OF

INSURRECTION AT U.S. CAPITOL;

U.S. HOUSE OF

REPRESENTATIVES; U.S. SENATE;

WARDEN SEKOU MAAT; CENTRAL

INTELLIGENCE AGENCY;

DESIGNATION AND SENTENCE

COMPUTATION CENTER, GRAND

PRAIRIE TEXAS & FEDERAL

BUREAU OF PRISONS,

Respondents.

21 On February 1, 2021, a putative 28 U.S.C. § 2241 habeas petition was filed in this District [Dkt. 1, “Petition”] by Frederick Banks, a convicted federal criminal currently incarcerated in the State of Louisiana at FCI-Oakdale and a frequent litigant here and elsewhere. The Petition names as Respondents the Articles of Impeachment pending against former President Donald J. Trump, both houses of the United States Congress, the Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA”), the apparent Warden of Banks’s custodial institution, a federal sentence and…