Things in Washington just keep getting more and more interesting. On Wednesday, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), speaking in a Senate hearing, called for Congress to carry out the impeachment of two federal judges. The judges in question are Judge James Boasberg and Judge Deborah Boardman. Judge Boardman, we might recall, in addition to having an apparent case of Stage IV Trump Derangement Syndrome, was the judge who handed down an intolerably light sentence to someone who attempted the assassination of a Supreme Court Justice.
Senator Cruz, it seems, has had enough.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Wednesday called on Congress during a Senate hearing to impeach two federal judges, making his most elaborate case yet for imposing the extraordinary sanction on a pair of closely scrutinized jurists.
Cruz acknowledged that impeaching federal judges is exceedingly rare — 15 have been impeached in history, typically for straightforward crimes like bribery — but the Texas Republican argued it was warranted for judges James Boasberg and Deborah Boardman.
"Rarer still, until now, were the deeper offenses the framers feared most — judges who, without necessarily breaking a criminal statute, violate the public trust, subvert the constitutional order or wield their office in ways that injure society itself," Cruz said. "That is why, throughout history, Congress recognized that impeachable misconduct need not be criminal."
Senator Cruz may well remind Democrats of the veracity of that last statement, that impeachable misconduct need not be criminal; if we are to take into account the two attempted impeachments of President Trump in his first term, it seems certain that to Democrats, impeachable misconduct need not even be factual.
But the odds of this happening, well, they don't look great.
Cruz, a Senate Judiciary Committee member with an extensive legal background, said the House needed to initiate impeachment proceedings over controversial gag orders Boasberg signed in 2023 and a sentence Boardman handed down last year in the case of Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s attempted assassin.
Impeachment proceedings must be initiated in the House and typically run through the House Judiciary Committee.
Russell Dye, a spokesman for the GOP-led committee, said "everything is on the table" when asked if Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, was open to the idea. If the House were to vote in favor of impeachment, it would then advance to the Senate. Two-thirds of senators would need to vote to convict the judges and remove them, a highly improbable scenario because the vote would require some support from Democrats.
The odds of Senate Republicans gaining such support from enough Democrats to convict are roughly on a par with the odds of Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spontaneously sprouting wings and flying to Saturn.
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Still, that doesn't make the attempt worthless. Even if the attempt comes to naught, it's a clear message to a judge who engages in this kind of stupidity:
In the case of Boardman, a Biden appointee, the judge sentenced Sophie Roske, who previously went by Nicholas Roske, to eight years in prison after the Department of Justice sought a 30-year sentence. Roske pleaded guilty to attempting to murder Kavanaugh. Boardman said she factored into her sentence that Roske identified as transgender and therefore faced unique adversity.
Now that right there is just downright malfeasance.
Senator Cruz's call here is largely symbolic, but there's a place for symbolic statements. There's a place for raising a hue and cry in response to an egregious act by a politician or a judge. There's a place for calling public attention to those acts, and a purely symbolic statement calling for the impeachment of two judges, unlikely as it is to happen, is still worth doing. It's called politics, and it's a complicated and often dirty business, with messaging being a key tactic. That's what this is, whether it moves ahead or not.
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