Natalie Winters is calling for an investigation into U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, alleging that his participation in a legal exchange program involving Chinese nationals raises serious questions about his past contacts and later judicial rulings involving China and the Trump administration.

Winters focused heavily on Boasberg’s involvement with programs run by the US-Asia Institute, which has brought Chinese law students to Washington to meet American officials and members of the judiciary.

The organization says its Rule of Law Program has arranged meetings between Chinese participants and more than 140 judges.

“When it comes to Judge Boasberg, who I'm sure people recall, someone who you couldn't even, I think, write in a Hollywood villain movie from the physiognomy to his actions to his rulings, but delaying, canceling the deportation flights, the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, some interesting Chinese ties, which we'll get into beyond what I just exposed,” Winters said.

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She connected those concerns to the China-United States Exchange Foundation, which she characterized as central to Chinese Communist Party influence efforts in Washington.

“It is the tip of the spear when it comes to the CCP's efforts to infiltrate, sure, all of America, but particularly Washington: politicians, think tank types, people in the media-you name it,” Winters said.

Winters alleged that judges were another target of those influence efforts and singled out Boasberg because of his repeated participation in the exchange program.

“He was a nine-time host, if you can believe it, for Chinese fellows,” she said.

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According to Winters, Boasberg hosted Chinese participants between 2015 and 2020 and again in 2022, 2023, and 2024.

Those earlier years overlapped with Boasberg’s service on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

The federal court’s official biography states that Boasberg served a seven-year term on the FISA court beginning in May 2014 and was its presiding judge from January 2020 through May 2021.

Winters said the access offered through the program was particularly concerning because of the sensitive nature of Boasberg’s position.

“They don't even euphemize it as it's some like positive exchange, it's basically just a one-way street where literal Chinese citizens get access to America's top secret court,” Winters said.

“Could you imagine the reverse happening? I don't think so, or you certainly would not live to tell about it.”

The US-Asia Institute describes its program differently, saying it was designed to expose Chinese law students to American government and legal institutions.

The organization also operates a program sending American law students to China.

Winters also turned her attention to J. Matthew Szymanski, one of the figures associated with the program, alleging that his professional background raised additional concerns about the exchange.

“This guy was lobbying for them,” Winters said while discussing Szymanski’s connection to Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, or SMIC.

She then argued that Boasberg’s China-related contacts should be viewed alongside his judicial decisions, pointing specifically to a case involving Chinese biotechnology company WuXi AppTec.

Boasberg recently blocked the Defense Department’s decision to add WuXi to a list of companies allegedly connected to the Chinese military, ruling that the government had not provided sufficient support for the designation.

WuXi disputed the Pentagon’s allegations and challenged its placement on the list in federal court.

Winters portrayed the decision as another reason to examine Boasberg’s record.

“This group, this company, was actually forbidden, forbade from being added to the entity list because Judge Boasberg stepped in and said that it was, oh, a horrible decision,” she said.

She argued that the combination of Boasberg’s exchange-program involvement, his immigration rulings, and the WuXi decision warrants further scrutiny.

“Judge Boasberg hosting essentially Chinese spies as part of a The euphemistic way of describing it is a Chinese propaganda organization,” Winters said.

Her characterization of the exchange participants as spies or intelligence assets is an allegation; the US-Asia Institute publicly describes them as law students participating in an educational exchange program.

Winters nevertheless maintained that the pattern should be formally investigated.

“I think this warrants an investigation, which I'm sure would probably lead to impeachment.”

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