Utah’s Sen. Mike Lee is soliciting campaign cash that he says will help assure the impeachment of a federal judge in Massachusetts who ruled against President Donald Trump.

His plea for donations has raised more than $20,000 so far, even though senators cannot impeach judges. As of Monday, no one in the House of Representatives had introduced articles of impeachment against the judge.

The fundraising message comes after U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani twice blocked implementation of Trump’s executive order to restrict who can receive a ballot in the mail based on eligible voter lists compiled by the Department of Homeland Security.

“President Trump has been trying to SECURE our elections before November. He secured a HUGE win for our mission with mail-in ballots, requiring all ballots to be received and counted within a certain time,” a message disseminated through the Republican fundraising platform WinRed begins.

“But then, a Rogue Activist Judge just OVERRULED that court decision,” Lee continues, adding, “Will you rush a donation of $5 ASAP to stand with me and DEMAND Judge Indira Talwani is IMPEACHED, so we can secure our elections?”

Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to leave in place Talwani’s recent block on rules drafted by the U.S. Postal Service to implement Trump’s order. Two justices, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, dissented.

As an early career attorney, Lee twice clerked for Alito. The senator first worked under Alito when he sat on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, then returned to clerk for Alito shortly after he joined the Supreme Court in 2006.

Lee took to social media earlier this month calling for Talwani’s impeachment after she initially blocked the Trump administration’s postal rule, but didn’t fundraise on the issue until the past week. He has sent out three fundraising emails calling for her impeachment and has raised nearly $21,000, with a goal of $30,000.

A spokesperson for Lee did not immediately respond Monday to questions about whether the senator is seriously pursuing impeachment, if he has spoken with any House members about the prospect or whether the Supreme Court’s mid-September decision to let Talwani’s ruling stand changes the impeachment calculus.

It is far from the first time Lee has called for Congress to impeach a judge over rulings he disagreed with.

Lee had previously called for Talwani to be impeached when she issued a temporary restraining order halting the effort to defund Planned Parenthood.

Last year, Lee joined a group of conservative Republican senators demanding the immediate suspension and impeachment of Judge James Boasberg for issuing gag orders in the investigation into attempts to designate alternate electors after the 2020 election in hopes of swaying the outcome in favor of Trump.

“I’m sure China could use another communist judge,” Lee posted on X. “Impeach Judge Boasberg. Then deport him to China.”

Lee called for the impeachment of Judge Deborah Boardman for giving an eight-year prison sentence to a defendant who plotted to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh — a sentence Lee thought was too lenient. He said Judge Trina Thompson should be impeached for blocking the deportation of immigrants in the U.S. with temporary protected status.

And when Judge Katherine Polk Failla blocked efforts by the Trump administration to subpoena private medical records of transgender youth, Lee posted on X, “Somebody just ordered articles of impeachment.”

The push by Lee and other Republicans to impeach judges prompted Chief Justice John Roberts to issue a statement last year cautioning against expelling judges for rulings lawmakers disagreed with.

“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Roberts said in his statement. “The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”

The Senate does not have the power to impeach judges. Under the U.S. Constitution, impeachment proceedings originate in the House. If a majority of the representatives vote for impeachment, a trial is held in the Senate where, if convicted by a two-thirds vote, the judge may be removed from office.

Since 1803, 15 judges have been impeached by the House for offenses ranging from drunkenness on the bench to siding with the Confederacy during the Civil War. Eight were convicted and removed from the bench, four were acquitted by the Senate and three resigned before a verdict was reached.

At odds with other Utah Republicans

If Trump’s order had been allowed to take effect, Lee’s home state was preparing to sue.

Most of the primarily Republican election officials in Utah say the order would have created chaos for voting in their state, where approximately 95% of ballots cast in the June primary had been delivered to voters’ mailboxes.

Utah automatically sends ballots to every active, registered voter — although state lawmakers recently passed a law requiring voters to opt in to have their ballot mailed starting in 2029. Utah is currently one of eight states, largely concentrated in the expansive American West, to hold all-mail elections.

Elections chief Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson and a dozen county clerks from Utah joined 25 other current and former election officials from nine other states in submitting a brief urging the high court not to revive the Trump administration rule. They argued there was not enough time to put the rule in place before November.

This isn’t the only instance of Lee being at odds with fellow Utah Republicans when it comes to election policy.

Trump’s Justice Department has for the last year sought states’ entire, unredacted voter databases as it says it is addressing baseless claims of widespread voter fraud. When the majority of states resisted, the department sued and has said it is investigating the election officials refusing its demand.

Henderson, who has said repeatedly there is no federal legal basis for the effort and acceding would violate state data privacy laws, is one of the election officials being investigated.

Other Utah Republicans — including Lee’s congressional colleague U.S. Rep. Blake Moore — came to Henderson’s defense and criticized the investigation as setting a “dangerous precedent of overreach.” Lee, who once came under fire for texts advising Trump on how to overturn his 2020 electoral loss, sided with the DOJ.

In a regular review of Utah’s elections published earlier this month, legislative auditors wrote they, again, “did not observe significant fraud” in the state’s June primary.

After the DOJ disclosed its investigation into her earlier this month, Henderson wrote on social media, “It would be nice if the good folks at the DOJ would focus on actual problems instead of baselessly harassing election officials.”

Hours later, sharing a screenshot of her comments, Lee posted: “Election security is the ‘actual problem.’”