Impeach Judge Who Let Would-Be SCOTUS Assassin Off Easy– thefederalist.com

Impeach Judge Who Let Would-Be SCOTUS Assassin Off Easy– thefederalist.com
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Last Friday, Judge Deborah Boardman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland shocked anyone with a conscience by imposing a comically light sentence on the young man, Nicholas Roske, who tried to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the spring of 2022, while also planning to kill two more of Kavanaugh’s conservative colleagues.

In doing so, she functionally condoned political violence — as long as it’s from the left — and based her decision, in large part, on her sympathy for the purported transgender status of the would-be assassin. In a year of preposterous district court decisions, this one takes the cake: Boardman gave a slap on the wrist to someone who planned and attempted the worst sort of political terrorism, it seems, because of her ideological sympathies. The decision is so potentially corrosive to our civic peace that Congress would be right to consider impeachment proceedings against Boardman.

As federal district judges have found increasingly novel and extreme ways to foil the Trump administration’s agenda, calls on the right for judicial impeachment have grown. Indeed, actual articles of impeachment have been introduced. This past spring, the chief justice himself denounced the movement. That he did so was imprudent — it’s not for judges to decide how Congress wields the impeachment power — but his basic argument was probably right. Going back to the start of the republic, there has been a general agreement that mere political disagreement is not enough to warrant impeaching a judge.