Posted on 12/04/2025 4:14:35 AM PST by SmokingJoe
INDIANA MOVES TO IMPEACH "ROGUE" JUDGES & PROSECUTORS: FINALLY, REAL TEETH FOR PUBLIC SAFETY
Indiana Rep. Andrew Ireland filed a proposed constitutional amendment to let the state legislature impeach judges and prosecutors who go soft on violent offenders.
Repeat killers or rapists get slaps on the wrist, and now lawmakers could boot the enablers out the door.
The push?
It's aimed square at spots like Marion County, where critics say DA Ryan Mears has let folks with rap sheets, like the IndyGo bus arsonist, walk free, spiking fear in neighborhoods.
Ireland's bill would expand impeachment beyond just "high crimes" to straight-up failure to enforce laws that protect innocents, needing approval in 2 legislative sessions before hitting voters.
This is the accountability people've been screaming for.
Soft-on-crime benchwarmers hide behind "discretion," but when their leniency endangers families, it's not justice, it's negligence.
The U.S. would be in the vanguard of this movement, it's due to time to boot 'em, replace 'em with tough enforcers who prioritize victims over perps.
Indiana's leading the charge; time for every state to follow and make courts serve the people, not coddle chaos.
Source: IndyStar, WIBC, @EricLDaugh, @AndrewIrelandIN
In product liability cases, willful negligence can send people to prison.
Impeach? They should be thinking rope.
The Indiana state constitution does not define treason against the state, as do many other state constitutions.
The state legislators need to work to include that revision in the Indiana constitution so they can apply it to traitorous state judges.
Rope? Time to bring Old Sparky out of retirement.
I think a law that holds judges personally and criminally liable for acts committed by individuals who were given lenient treatment would go a long way towards addressing the problem.
This is the right stuff. At last there will be consequences for these no-consequences-for-violent-criminals judges.
Yes, I agree.
filed a proposed constitutional amendment to let the state legislature impeach judges and prosecutors who go soft on violent offenders.
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It would be implausible to suggest they do not already possess this power, and have since 1832 or whatever.
These clowns aren’t “soft” on crime, what they are is hard on the citizenry, punishing decent peaceable people. If you’re kind to the cruel, you just end up being cruel to the kind. This has the odor of some legislative publicity stunt.
One State down, another 49 to go, but it’s a very important beginning in the right direction.
Hot diggity dog. Someone is finally doing something to these rogue judges who should be behind bars and not sitting on the bench. Now is the whole nation’s judges were treated like these, crime would be down considerably.
What a bunch of nonsense. I haven’t written here in so long in part because what goes on here no longer represents what it means to be a conservative. I still hold that much of this crap isn’t from freepers but fakes.
These forum responses show exactly how little understanding people writing here have of the basics of Constitutional Law, both in Indiana and of the National Government.
Whatever happened to checks and balances, recall, distribution/ separation of powers, limited government, fiscal responsibility, local control, and rule of law? What about liberty, and justice, individualism, the right to life, and the rights of property ownership? What about John Locke and the principles of the Founders?
Mike Braun is a DEMOCRAT in sheep’s clothing. Why would anyone agree to what he says? The simple answer is, if you don’t like the judge, vote him out. If you don’t like the law, why not look at the stupid legal decisions the LIBERAL REPUBLICAN General Assembly and Senate have passed in the last few years?
For example, the Indiana Legislature has expanded restorative justice practices through a myriad of Statutes. Title 9, for example, allows offenders of OWIs who refuse a chemical test upon probable cause to be able to request an interlock device installed on their vehicle in lieu of out right suspension. They get credit during their suspension, and the interlock device wipes away the refusal suspension. There is NO PUNISHMENT for refusing to be tested. You can even get an interlock to monitor alcohol in your system when you are driving, even if the underlying offense is for operating with a drug in your system. More people died in 2024 in Indiana on Indiana roads from drugged driving than drunk driving. The Indiana legislature doesn’t take drinking and driving seriously, and they continue to erode away reasonable accountability for careless and dangerous individuals.
The Indiana legislature now allows for expungements- or the erasing of your criminal past. And it isn’t just minor thefts of pot possession, but also includes violent and drug related offenses. Worse, businesses, industry and other agencies aren’t allowed to know that you’ve been convicted of serious offenses. Until 2 years ago, it used to include that expungements of violent offenses meant that you could apply to be a police officer! Beat your wife and cause her bodily injury as a Level 6 felony, you can get that expunged and then can go teach at a school. And the school has no idea! What if you are a thief or embezzle funds (corrupt business influence)..... you can get that expunged and then turn around and work at a bank. AND EVEN WORSE, State case law now allows the business to be sued for acts committed by employees outside the scope of their job and training (beyond typical respondent superior), exposing businesses to suit. This is such a few examples of the left wing lunacy of the Indiana Republican party.
So what is really going on? Indiana’s populace is ultra conservative. Who wants to run things? Democrats. So, democrats often run claiming to be conservative. Ask them about their conservative beliefs? Indiana party officials state that you are not being “inclusive”.
Left leaning Republican governors like Mike Holcomb and current governor Braun, have selected Liberals to sit on the Indiana Supreme Court and Court of appeals. Think this doesn’t have an effect? Under Indiana conlaw, the State Supreme court determines PROCEDURAL matters, not the legislature. This means court rules (rules of evidence, Trial Rules, Criminal Rules, child support determinations, etc). This also means that they determine the State Ethics, which Indiana has been dinged on as anti-free speech before. I’ve even heard that Braun recently has been appointing known LIBERALS and DEMOCRATS to sit as judges in solid conservative republican counties- who are picked over qualified, knowledgeable and conservative republicans. Is this the guy that you want now picking prosecutors?
Everyone is mad a Ryan Mears, the Marion County/Indianapolis Prosecutor. But here is the thing, right now, the Republicans control the State. What happens if we change local county voting for county Prosecutors to appointments by the governor? It is now a political position, one that local people have no say in (people who do have to live with the consequences). What happens if a democrat wins governor? Are the 90% republican counties now going to get democrat prosecutors like they have in Marion County? Yes, and its dangerous.
No one likes what is going on in Indy. But, it is in Indy. And if the people of Indy choose this, that is their choice. When criminals come to the donut counties- they find out what jail is really like. More importantly, it isn’t decided by a demorat, it isn’t decided as a purely political decision.... in our small counties, it is decided typically by a highly qualified, highly conservative prosecutor chosen by the people of that county.
If you don’t like your judge, vote them out. If you don’t like the prosecutor, vote them out. If you don’t like the laws, vote for actual conservative republicans, not Rinos and demorats in sheeps clothing.
The State of Indiana needs to wake up. All over the place dems run as republicans. The party doesn’t talk about values. No one stands for Limited Government, local government, local control, fiscal responsibility, checks and balances, constitutional law or the rule of law.
Before we scrap a system that was good enough for our ancestors and worked fine just a short time ago, why don’t we look to understanding it and following it. Why don’t we do the hard thing of learning the values that make conservativism great and advocating and voting for candidates who believe and practice such.
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