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Posted on 12/10/2025 10:03:57 AM PST by John Semmens
US District Judges James Boasberg and Deborah Boardman have both turned down invitations to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Both invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. "Look," Boasberg said. "The title of the hearing session is 'Impeachment: Holding Rogue Judges Accountable.' We don't want to be held accountable. We're both members of a separate but equal branch of the government. Congress can't force us to be accountable to them."
Senate Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassly (R-Iowa) pointed out that "both of these judges have exercised powers that they do not have to thwart federal law and assist criminal aliens to escape justice. These actions endanger the general public and undermine our national security. The Judges need to explain to us why they think we shouldn't take actions to rein-in their usurpation. This hearing provides them with an opportunity to do so."
"I don't need any opportunity that a mere senator can provide," Boasberg replied. "I do whatever I want. There's nothing that Grassly or anyone else can do to stop me. I've got a lifetime appointment. Senators have six-year terms. Presidents have four-year terms and a maximum of two terms. I'll still be here long after they're all gone."
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god speak
Cut em out of the budget
They can work for nuthin
This goes beyond judicial activism. It has morphed into judicial tyranny.
That would unconstitutional. Judges slaries cannot be be used to punish rogue judges. Impeachment and removal is the only penalty allowed.
Isn’t this the equivalent of employees saying they’re not going to be accountable and answer to their employer? This isn’t a typical “average citizen” being coerced into talking and incriminating themselves.
Surely there should be a process by a higher court to REQUIRE them to provide an account? They can’t just be unaccountable within their JOB.
“I’ve got a lifetime appointment.”
Snicker...Definitely the attitude if not the reality.
Will Congress actually do their job?
Maybe US Marshalls could help these rogues to be accountable.
“US District Judges James Boasberg and Deborah Boardman have both turned down invitations to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.”
Refuse to testify in front of Congress as a judge, you should be automatically brought up for impeachment vote. No further discussion is necessary. They are either servants of the people of the United States or they ‘are not”. Refusing to answer to the people says that they ‘Are NOT’
“Separation of powers. But not when we throw out royal proclamations from our bench.” - The Judges
well, Congress could lower the salaries of all district court judges but I don’t see that happening.
Article III, section 1:
“The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.”
US Constitution.
“Impeachment and removal is the only penalty allowed.”
That is the action Congress should take so it becomes a lesson to others. Somehow I doubt that happens.
Both invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Huge guilty neon sign blinking.
In their minds laws is for those not in power.
So, these clowns assert that unlike even the SCOTUS judges, they cannot be impeached and removed?
The problem is the 2/3’rd Senate* majority vote for removal. That in the current Congress you will never get. Impeach him (simple majority) remember that’s like an indictment later the Senate trial. (We’ve seen this! Clinton once, Trump twice!) If he won’t show up to testify to a House committee what makes you think he will show up for a Senate trial? Send the largely ceremonial House Sergeant-of-Arms to arrest with Marshall’s from the DOJ? Would his district Marshalls resist? It would be interesting!
* Because of the 17th Amendment the Senate has all the poisonous partisanship of the House. Something the Founding Fathers minimized by making them selected by the state legislatures.
Agreed. Congress intends to tech no lessons.
Dittos to all that.
But I’ve always believed Congress should impeach even if the Senate is unlikely to remove. Get the House impeachments on the record.
“Good Behavior” would seem to be the important staement here. If judges try to work around this, then impeachment is the answer.
Congress can eliminate any inferior court to SCOTUS via legislation.
(Judiciary Act of 1802)
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