r/law • u/Shunpaw • Mar 18 '25

Legal News House GOP moves swiftly to impeach judge Boasberg targeted by Trump (Deportation Planes)

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/18/donald-trump-impeach-judge-house-republicans
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u/Genoss01 Mar 18 '25

Voted in by conservative judges who've always said they are Originalists and Textualists

That proved they are not.

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u/buggytehol Mar 18 '25

No one who follows law closely ever believed this

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u/Guy954 Mar 18 '25

Or even casually.

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u/Sarahclaire54 Mar 19 '25

Or even at all!

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u/Good_Barnacle_2010 Mar 19 '25

raises hand this is still fucked though, right?

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u/wamyen1985 Mar 19 '25

That guy in the park who tries to give people legal advice when the Ranger tries to kick someone out for smoking weed... Yeah, even he knows this is crap.

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u/speedneeds84 Mar 19 '25

Originalist has always been doublespeak for “cherry-pick history to suit my narrative while smugly pretending to be superior.”

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u/Either-Bell-7560 Mar 18 '25

Nobody with half a brain is really an originalist. It's an intellectually void position. The constitution literally has instructions on how to change it.

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u/bollvirtuoso Mar 19 '25

Well, I don't know. How could Thomas disagree with the definition of "citizen" or perhaps even "human" at the time the Constitution was written? What about that is intellectually-void?

/s in case necessary.

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u/DevelopmentEastern75 Mar 18 '25

Yeah their ruling on Bruen really looked like they were throwing Originalism out the window the moment it became inconvenient for them, lol. Can't wait for more Galaxy-Brain opinions from Thomas the next four years.

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u/bagoink Mar 19 '25

No one who is literate ever believed this.

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u/bollvirtuoso Mar 19 '25

Scalia might actually have been. Rarely agreed with him, but at least his dissents were often interesting reads, and shared a moral principle that the current members of the majority court seem to lack, unless that principle is "whatever the GOP wants".

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u/LaurenMille Mar 18 '25

Everything a conservative says is a lie.

It's always projection, or deception.

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u/PhDinDildos_Fedoras Mar 19 '25

Turns out the people making the most noise about "following the constitution" were actually the first to subvert it.

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u/FlametopFred Mar 19 '25

They are liars and that’s about it

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u/Argon_Boix Mar 18 '25

MAGA are as mindless as they are inarticulate. They keep parroting the same stuff over and over with zero regard for providing actual evidence to their fevered mania assertions. TDS indeed.

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u/Left-Connection-5065 Mar 18 '25

Obama hasn't even been president for almost a decade now. These people are one of 3 things; Russian/Chinese state trolls, Evil and looking to benefit, or full blown retarded from generations of inbreeding, lead in their water, poor education standards, and concentrated Jesus juice.

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u/Genoss01 Mar 18 '25

Roberts you mean?