Monday, March 10, 2025

Impeachment?

LAw360 has Judicial Impeachment Calls Could Drive Anger At Bench

  • In the course of history, there have been 15 impeachments of federal judges, dating back to 1803. Eight of them resulted in convictions and the judge being removed from office.
  • As of this article's publication, there were at least 11 federal judges on the House Republicans' radar for impeachment and more will likely be added to the list.
  • The last judge to be successfully impeached was G. Thomas Porteous Jr. of the Eastern District of Louisiana in December 2010, when senators convicted him for failing to recuse from a case where he had a conflict of interest, corruption, making false statements on a personal bankruptcy filing and lying to federal officials.
  • Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho said he’s resigning from a judicial group after it spoke up in defense of judges who’ve been criticized and threatened, as billionaire Elon Musk and others lash out at members of the federal judiciary ruling against Trump administration policies.
  • Speaking at a Federalist Society event on Saturday, Ho said he decided to resign after the Federal Judges Association sent a statement following these latest attacks, but not in defense of US Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, or Brett Kavanaugh, as well other federal judges in Florida or Texas.
Law.com has 5th Circuit Judge Ho Quits Judicial Group Over Its Statement Against Threats to Judiciary -- “You can't say that you're in favor of judicial independence only when it comes to decisions that you like," Ho said of the Federal Judiciary Association. "That's not protecting the judiciary. That's politicizing the judiciary.”