Congressional Democrats reportedly plan to continue the government shutdown standoff for several more weeks in an attempt to force Republicans to accept their healthcare demands.
Democrats are digging in, even as active-duty military service members risk missing a paycheck on October 15, because they believe they are “winning the messaging war,” as CNN put it.
One senior Democrat aide told CNN that as long as public perception is in their favor, the party will not concede short of “planes falling out of the sky,” presumably due to air traffic controller staffing shortages.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday called that comment “one of the most disgusting statements I’ve ever read.”
Early polling of the shutdown showed clear majorities of Americans blaming Republicans for the standoff, but the polls have tightened since then.
On Sunday the New York Post reported that New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s campaign took in nearly $13,000 in “potentially illegal foreign donations.” Unsurprisingly, the party that spent four years claiming “no one is above the law” when justifying their lawfare against President Donald Trump is now silent on such alleged election law violations simply because Mamdani is one of their own.
According to the Post, “At least 170 of the nearly 54,000 contributions … came from donors with addresses outside the United States, an examination of NYC Campaign Finance Board records found.” As noted by the Post, only U.S. citizens or permanent legal residents can legally contribute to political campaigns and action committees. Any illegal donations must be returned.
Jihadi Zohran Mamdani ran for Gaza on the day the hostages were released -the UNRWA 5K for Gaza. UNRWA, the organization UNRWA whose employees took part in the October 7th massacre and subsequently kept the hostages in captivity. This is who Mamdani is raising money for.
The federal government has already cut off funding to this terror linked organization last year.
Mamdani wants to keep the refugee status of Palestinians into perpetuity to help with his cause of the eliminating Israel.
First his wife glorifies a Hamas Terrorist on her Instagram Stories.
Then he raises money for Hamas-run UNRWA.
No self-respecting New Yorker should vote for Mamdani as Mayor of NYC. https://t.co/p3VQHtOZWJ
— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) October 13, 2025
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This morning I ran the NYC Gaza 5K in Prospect Park for the third time, alongside the Harlem Run Club, to raise money for @unrwausa, which delivers critical humanitarian aid and services to Palestinians in Gaza.
I hope you’ll join me in donating. pic.twitter.com/la15Ea1wqL
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) October 13, 2025
A coalition of news outlets, including the conservative Newsmax, said they wouldn’t sign the Pentagon’s new document outlining new press rules.
The group, which includes the Washington Post, the Atlantic, Reuters, NPR, Newsmax, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the Associated Press, and the New York Times, argued that the new rules violate the First Amendment.
“Journalists from the New York Times will not sign the Pentagon’s revised press pass policy, which threatens to punish them for ordinary news gathering protected by the First Amendment,” the New York Times’s statement read. “Since the policy was first announced, we have expressed concerns that it constrains how journalists can report on the U.S. military, which is funded by nearly $1 trillion in taxpayer dollars annually.”
President Donald Trump has suggested that the U.S. could send Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine if Russia refuses to move toward a settlement in the ongoing war.
Speaking with reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday, Trump described the Tomahawk as “an incredible weapon, a very offensive weapon.”
Trump hinted he would use the prospect of deployment as leverage in upcoming discussions with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“I may tell him [Putin] that if the war is not settled, we may very well,” Trump said.
Marco Rubio fires State Dept official caught in romance with CCP affiliate who ‘could have been a spy’: OMG
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio has fired a State Department Foreign Service officer who admitted in an undercover video from O’Keefe Media Group, that he had a romantic relationship with a woman linked to the Chinese Communist Party.
A statement from the State Department confirmed that Daniel Choi, a Foreign Service officer, was terminated following presidential approval from Donald Trump.
“Today, after Presidential review and approval, the Secretary of State has terminated a Foreign Service Officer (FSO) who concealed a romantic relationship with a Chinese national with ties to the Chinese Communist Party,” the department said.
The statement noted that under an executive order, “all officers or employees charged with implementing the foreign policy of the United States must under Article II do so under the direction and authority of the president. Failure to faithfully implement the president’s policy is grounds for professional discipline, including separation.”
A State Department spokesperson told O’Keefe Media Group that this is the first time in US history a dismissal of this kind has occurred.
In the undercover recording, Choi admitted to knowingly violating security protocols by hiding his relationship with a senior Chinese Communist Party official’s daughter.
“I defied my government for love,” Choi said in the video.
“Her dad was, like, either a provincial or a federal minister of education,” he continued. “So he’s like, straight up Communist party.”
An invasion of Taiwan by China could leave the world on the brink of World War 3, a military expert has warned. Former intelligence officer Philip Ingram explained how Taiwan is preparing to defend itself using its so-called ‘porcupine strategy’, while warning war between the two Asian nations could “ignite an even greater conflict” than that seen in Ukraine, where he described “the world’s attention is fixed”.
China has the largest military in the world, and US intelligence has previously suggested Xi Jinping has ordered his forces to be ready for a possible invasion of Taiwan as soon as 2027. China claims Taiwan as part of its territory, viewing the self-ruled island nation as a breakaway province, and has not ruled out seizing it by force. Beijing has been rapidly advancing its military capabilities in recent years, with Russia allegedly also supplying the country with weaponry.
Mr Ingram, a military intelligence expert, said Beijing views Taiwan as “destiny”, while for the US “it’s a red line”.
In the latest episode of The Sun’s Battle Plans Exposed, Mr Ingram detailed how Taiwan — which is around 100 miles off China’s south-east coast — would use its porcupine strategy to defend itself.
He said the strategy, also known as asymmetric defence, does not aim to defeat China in a traditional war but “to make an invasion so difficult, so costly and so bloody that Beijing is deterred from ever attempting it”.
The leaks published by Candace Owens suggest that Kirk fell out with a Jewish donor just days before his assassination
Leaked text messages in which late conservative activist Charlie Kirk admits to losing the support of a major Jewish donor are “authentic,” according to Andrew Kolvet, a spokesman for Kirk’s nonprofit Turning Point USA.
Kolvet said he had personally shared a screenshot of a private chat with “people in the government” shortly after Kirk’s death. He did not want to make it public because it was a “private conversation” that did not “necessarily comport with things that were already made public,” he said on ‘The Charlie Kirk Show’ YouTube channel on Tuesday.
The leaked messages were first shown by conservative commentator Candace Owens during her YouTube podcast on Monday. According to the screenshots, Kirk wrote, “I just lost another huge Jewish donor. $2 million a year because we won’t cancel Tucker.”
The remark apparently referred to Kirk’s refusal to withdraw an invitation for fellow conservative commentator Tucker Carlson to speak at his AmericaFest conference. In a follow-up message, Kirk wrote that he had “no choice but to leave the pro-Israel cause.”
The Ukrainian suspect, Volodymyr Z, who is wanted in Germany in connection with the September 2022 blasts, was detained near Warsaw in late September.
A Polish court ruled on Monday that he must remain in custody for another 40 days while it considers Germany’s request to extradite him under a European arrest warrant.
Speaking on Tuesday, Tusk said it was ultimately the court’s decision to decide whether to hand over Volodymyr Z to Germany — and that the government would not interfere.
However, he once again stated Poland’s opposition to the pipelines, which it has long argued made Europe too dependent on Russian energy.
“The problem of Europe, the problem of Ukraine, the problem of Lithuania and Poland is not that Nord Stream 2 was blown up, but that it was built,” Tusk told a press conference.
“It is certainly not in the interest of Poland … to hand over this citizen to a foreign country,” he added.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R.) announced Tuesday that he has launched undercover operations into various left-wing terror cells in the state in response to rising political violence, most notably, the political assassination of TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk.
As part of the effort, the attorney general said undercover agents will be infiltrating identified “leftist terror cells” like Antifa.
“Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people,” Paxton said in a statement.
“The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk marks a turning point in America. There can be no compromise with those who want us dead. To that end, I have directed my office to continue its efforts to identify, investigate, and infiltrate these leftist terror cells. To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming.”
President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order on September 22 officially designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization and instructed his administration to “utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations—especially those involving terrorist actions—conducted by Antifa.”
Democrats love to portray themselves as the “Party of Women.” They will tell voters breathlessly that they are the only thing standing between our mothers, aunts, sisters, and daughters from being forced into Handmaid’s Tale outfits.
But, as with all things Democratic, don’t look at what they say, look at what they do. Time and again, Democrats betray women when it really matters. Democrats put the desires of “trans identifying” men over the rights and safety of women, including women in prison and girls in locker rooms. The Biden administration rewrote Title IX to force men into women’s sports and punish the women who spoke out against it. They lie about abortion and the abortion pill, harming women.
And now we’ve learned that Zohran Mamdani, New York’s frontrunner for mayor, refused to step in and stop a rape on the grounds of cultural relativism.
It is wild that Zohran Mamdani admitted to watching women being raped in Egypt and not intervening on grounds of cultural relativism
What’s worse is leftists will excuse and defend this coward: pic.twitter.com/XvIRycbCIV
— Trinity Votes Blue 🇮🇱🇺🇦 (@TrinityMustache) October 7, 2025
Two people are running to be Virginia Attorney General. One of them wished for his opponent to be murdered and for another opponents kids to be murdered in front of them so that would would help this candidate’s political agenda. The other candidate did none of those things. According to Nancy Pelosi, the person who wishes death on his opponents and their children is, on balance, the better candidate. That candidate is also the Democrat. Surprise!
To quote Jay Jones, the DEMOCRAT candidate for VA AG, about then Speaker of the House Todd Gilbert, “Three people, two bullets… Gilbert, hitler, and pol pot…Gilbert gets two bullets to the head…Spoiler: put Gilbert in the crew with the two worst people you know and he receives both bullets every time.”
He also said he hoped Gilbert’s kids would die in front of him, adding, “I mean do I think Todd and Jennifer are evil? And that they’re breeding little fascists? Yes.”
Apropos of nothing, and I say this out of love and respect for the game, shouts to the Republican who held on to these texts until the most politically opportune moment. A lesser official would have rushed right to X-Twitter to score a political point or two.
Nancy Pelosi thinks wishing for a bullet to be put in the head of your opponent and of your opponent’s children is a-ok, as long as the person who thinks so is a Democrat and will advance her podies radical agenda against Americans. She also tried to make it about her, wondering where the outrage is when she gets a threat.
On Saturday, a massive fire broke out at the Edisto Beach home of Diane Goodstein, a South Carolina Circuit Court judge who was born and raised in the Palmetto State.
Photos and videos from the scene show it being engulfed in flames and totally destroyed. Two family members and another person were in the home at the time of the blaze. They all escaped, thankfully, but sustained injuries:
Circuit Court Judge Diane Goodstein was walking her dogs on the beach in Edisto Island, S.C., about an hour south of Charleston, when the fire began, according to officials. Her husband, former state Sen. Arnold Goodstein, their son, Arnold Goodstein III, and one other occupant were forced to jump from the burning building from an elevated first floor to escape the blaze, officials said.
The three occupants were rescued by kayak from the home’s backyard due to the area’s marshy terrain, Colleton County Fire-Rescue told ABC News. One occupant was airlifted to Medical University of South Carolina hospital in Charleston and the other two were taken there via ground transportation, according to Colleton County Fire-Rescue.
UP IN FLAMES: Authorities are investigating the possibility of arson after the waterfront home of South Carolina Judge Diane Goodstein burned to the ground. Three people were reportedly injured. pic.twitter.com/ciPC7NgF7m
— Fox News (@FoxNews) October 6, 2025
A massive fire engulfed Judge Diane Goodstein’s home in South Carolina. Her husband broke multiple bones after jumping from the burning home. pic.twitter.com/7mMpihrgzD
— USA TODAY Video (@usatodayvideo) October 6, 2025
Almost immediately, the Usual Suspects sprang into action, blaming the Trump administration for criticizing Goldstein over a TRO she issued in early September that barred the state’s election commission from handing over its voter registration info to the DOJ:
Circuit Court judge Diane Goodstein issued a temporary restraining order to halt the process on Sept. 2, saying that “there is a likelihood that immediate and irreparable damage will result to Plaintiff if her personal information data is released in violation of her right to privacy.”
Harmeet Dhillon, DOJ Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, pushed back on the ruling at the time, vowing to press on:
🚨🚨🚨This @TheJusticeDept’s @CivilRights will not stand for a state court judge’s hasty nullification of our federal voting laws. I will allow nothing to stand in the way of our mandate to maintain clean voter rolls.
One Citizen, One Vote! 🤨 pic.twitter.com/g4OoNr2oyZ
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) September 5, 2025
Between that, unconfirmed reports of Goodstein allegedly receiving threats after the ruling, and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller harshly criticizing the judge in the Oregon National Guard case on the same day Goodstein’s house went up in flames, it was enough for the liberal outrage machine to do its thing:
A senior White House official accusing a federal judge — appointed by his own boss — of “insurrection” for ruling on a case isn’t just reckless. It’s authoritarian propaganda, plain and simple.
Stephen Miller should be fired. https://t.co/9IsJZoFNb2
— Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) October 5, 2025
This is Newsom’s comms director:
A few weeks ago, one of Trump’s top DOJ officials publicly targeted this judge.
Today, the judge’s home is on fire. https://t.co/FEQb6zGubk pic.twitter.com/leD0G7bGoG
— Izzy Gardon (@iGardon) October 5, 2025
Trump, @StephenM and MAGA-world have been doxxing and threatening judges who rule against Trump, including Judge Goodstein.
Today, someone committed arson on the Judge’s home, severely injuring her husband and son.
Will Trump speak out against the extreme right that did this?? https://t.co/Dl8JcUted7
— Daniel Goldman (@danielsgoldman) October 6, 2025
Just yesterday @StephenM called judges “terrorists.” Now a judge’s home has burned after an explosion.
We need a full investigation, but it’s undeniable that this rhetoric is dangerous & it makes violence feel permissible. Is @realDonaldTrump going to say or do anything?? https://t.co/m35vZC0ebG
— Yassamin Ansari (@yassaminansari) October 6, 2025
MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace and Mary McCord tried to blame Trump for the fire at the house of the South Carolina judge.
In a proper society these people would be taken off the air. pic.twitter.com/yK8X6vSttX
— MAZE (@mazemoore) October 7, 2025
After the tweets from Newsom’s office in particular, however, Dhillon was alerted to alleged threats that DOJ staffers said they saw in the comments:
According to a screenshot, one ominous-sounding post from an X account that no longer exists declared, “I’m just saying Harmeet Dhillon’s address can’t be hard to find.” The screenshot also showed that after the person was asked what they were saying, they replied, “I’ll let you know in two weeks.”
Those posts appear to have been made in reply to a post from Izzy Gardon, Newsom’s communications director.
In response, Dhillon indicated she’d made some referrals to the U.S. Marshals office:
Threats against me are referred to
the US Marshals. There have been several tonight. We will tolerate no such threats by woke idiots, including those who work for @GavinNewsom.
Govern yourselves accordingly. FAFO.— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) October 6, 2025
On Monday, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) announced that so far, they’d found no evidence that the fire was intentionally set, a message that SC Gov. Henry McMaster shared on X:
SLED Chief Mark Keel has announced that at this point in the investigation there is no evidence the horrific fire at Judge Goodstein’s Edisto home was intentionally set. I echo Chief Keel’s call for everyone to exercise good judgment and avoid sharing unverified information while the investigation continues.
SLED Chief Mark Keel has announced that at this point in the investigation there is no evidence the horrific fire at Judge Goodstein’s Edisto home was intentionally set. I echo Chief Keel’s call for everyone to exercise good judgment and avoid sharing unverified information while… https://t.co/Z5JU89YiIv
— Gov. Henry McMaster (@henrymcmaster) October 6, 2025
The news had Dhillon once again implicating Newsom’s comms guy in the alleged threats against her:
Oh really! Yet Gavin Newsom’s reckless punk staff decided to target me and @StephenM with baseless slurs about being responsible for this non-arson, leading to threats against me. Grossly irresponsible and intentionally endangering a federal law enforcement official. https://t.co/twfZ29SX93
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) October 6, 2025
As a side note, most of the “reporting” and hyperventilating from the media and the left on this story leave out the very inconvenient fact that subsequent rulings in the case in the weeks that followed were against the plaintiff who had originally sued to stop the release of the information:
Sept. 11: SC Supreme Court lifts block on state from sharing voter data with DOJ
Oct. 1: Circuit Court judge sides with SC in case over voter data release to DOJ
The investigation into the cause of the fire is ongoing. We’ll keep you posted on developments.
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Pro-Hamas protesters commemorated the anniversary of the October 7 attacks on Israel by doing what they do best: Getting arrested for behaving like petulant thugs in Boston, Massachusetts.
The fracas began around 6:46 p.m. when police responded to an “unrelated emergency three blocks away” from where the protest was happening, according to a Boston Police Department (BPD) press release.
The horde of protesters involved about 200 to 300 people. They blocked the street, preventing law enforcement vehicles from passing through. “Many protesters, wearing facial coverings and gloves, interlocked arms, chanted over amplified bullhorns, and refused to clear the roadway,” the press release said.
Hamas attempts to block emergency vechiles on Tremont St. Crowd chats “BPD is KKK” #mapoli #Boston #October7th pic.twitter.com/XEKQmIL0qU
— JohnFGately (@johnfgately) October 7, 2025
Vascular surgeon Dr. Matthew Spreadbury picked up my call as he was finishing a full day of surgery alongside local Tigrayan doctors Dr. Aregawi and Dr. Haymnot. The three gave a sobering rundown of their situation: “There are 3,000 orthopedic patients waiting, 1,000 plastic surgery patients waiting, and 300 neurosurgery cases.”
The war that erupted in November 2020 between Ethiopia’s federal forces, supported by Eritrea, and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) killed hundreds of thousands and devastated Tigray’s health system. Field assessments found that of 106 medical facilities surveyed, nearly 70 percent were looted, more than 30 percent damaged, and only 13 percent remained functional. These conditions left patients without access to surgery, antibiotics, or obstetric care, leading to countless preventable deaths.
Medical groups have documented widespread sexual violence amounting to crimes against humanity, leaving deep trauma and long-term medical needs across Tigray. Hunger persisted even after the ceasefire, with local researchers verifying at least 1,329 starvation deaths in the months that followed. The 2022 Pretoria Agreement halted large-scale fighting but failed to resolve the underlying issues.
More than 30 Christians have been beheaded at the hands of Islamic State terrorists in Mozambique.
The Islamic group claimed responsibility for the attacks on Christian communities as Mozambique continues to be ravaged by jihad.
The Islamic State announced that they destroyed at least seven churches, committed acts of arson against Christians and village civilians, and shot and beheaded more than two dozen people in the Cabo Delgado and Nampula provinces in the northern area of Mozambique.
El Estado Islámico proclama y celebra en sus medios de prensa que «masacra» a los cristianos en Mozambique y el Congo: «Son victorias del Califato»https://t.co/gxbUQVsVoH
— LA GACETA (@gaceta_es) October 2, 2025
No protests. No news. Not outrage. It’s the same ideology behind the jihad against the Jewish state. And the world stands with the Islamic savages.
The Vatican says nothing but condemns Israel.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, opened the oversight hearing of the Department of Justice (DOJ) pushing a new narrative Democrats have latched on to: the lie that ICE agents zip-tied children during a Chicago raid.
“In the middle of the night, federal agents pulled women and children out of their beds, crashed down the doors to their homes, destroyed their apartments, zip-tied children and others, and detained immigrants and U.S. citizens alike for hours in vans,” Durbin claimed. “When one witness complained about the treatment of the small children, an agent laughed at her and said, ‘F them kids.’”
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker gave a dramatic description of this same story during a Monday press conference and has been repeating it every chance he gets.
But Assistant Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin posted that “children were never zip-tied.”
“This is a shameful and disgusting lie. POTUS Trump and Secretary Noem will not let children be exploited and trafficked by gangs and criminals like the past administration.”
Special Counsel Jack Smith Spied On Multiple GOP Senators › American Greatness– amgreatness.com
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An FBI document obtained by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) shows that the FBI, under Joe Biden, spied on 8 Republican senators as part of its Arctic Frost investigation.
Grassley said the 2023 investigation, which formed the basis of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s elector case against President Trump, targeted 8 GOP Senators’ personal cell phones for “tolling data” tracking their use between January 4 and January 7, 2021.
According to a press release from the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, the FBI targeted 8 GOP Senators, including Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) as well as Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA).
This document shows the Biden FBI spied on 8 of my Republican Senate colleagues during its Arctic Frost investigation into “election conspiracy” Arctic Frost later became Jack Smith’s elector case against Trump
BIDEN FBI WEAPONIZATION = WORSE THAN WATERGATE pic.twitter.com/V2JyiVlX48
— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) October 6, 2025
Biden FBI Spied On 8 GOP Senators In Get-Trump Probe– thefederalist.com
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The Biden FBI targeted eight Republican senators’ personal cell phone information as part of an investigation that evolved into lawfare against Donald Trump, new records published Monday show.
The agency document released by Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, indicates that the FBI sought and obtained the cell phone “tolling data” of eight GOP senators and Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Penn., as part of its “Arctic Frost” inquiry in 2023. That investigation ultimately became Special Counsel Jack Smith‘s elector lawfare against Trump.
According to a Senate Judiciary Committee press release, the FBI obtained the data “about the senators’ phone use from January 4 through January 7, 2021.” The information, the presser noted, “shows when and to whom a call is made, as well as the duration and general location data of the call,” but “does not include the content of the call.”
The eight Senate Republicans targeted in the probe include Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Bill Hagerty and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming.
“Based on the evidence to-date, Arctic Frost and related weaponization by federal law enforcement under Biden was arguably worse than Watergate,” Grassley said in a statement. “What I’ve uncovered today is disturbing and outrageous political conduct by the Biden FBI. The FBI’s actions were an unconstitutional breach, and Attorney General Bondi and Director Patel need to hold accountable those involved in this serious wrongdoing.”
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.
