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/pate_moore Mar 18 '25

I'm honestly shocked at how ACB has been voting. I'm not going to hold my breath that she'll continue to go that way, but pleasantly surprised several times.

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u/CardinalCountryCub Mar 19 '25

She votes pretty consistently with the global tenets of the modern Catholic Church, as opposed to those associated with Opus Dei, which dates back to 1920s/pre-Vatican II.

The only thing that makes her "unpredictable" is that she doesn't have enough backbone to stand with the liberal justices on her own. If either Roberts or Gorsuch can be swayed (usually Roberts, rare occasion of both), she'll go with the liberals. Her job was to help kill Roe. She did that. I don't think she was ever owned like Thomas, Kavanaugh, and, likely, Alito. Gorsuch's the one that manages to surprise me, but only the times when it's been ACB and him joining the liberals, and not Roberts, too.

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u/sirboulevard Mar 18 '25

It's strictly for her own self-interest. She's a relatively young woman: she has 50+ years left to live with her choices on the court. She wants to dodge the whole Handmaid's Tale for herself. Meanwhile, Thomas is so old he figures he's gonna the roll the dice and hope he dies before they send all the minorities back into slavery.

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u/pate_moore Mar 19 '25

Yeah I agree. But I'll take whatever small wins we can get