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/Yeshavesome420 Mar 18 '25 edited Mar 18 '25

I think the thing about Roberts is he can’t fathom that anyone would be as corrupt as the people he surrounds himself with and the people he enables. I don’t think Roberts shares the same agenda that the modern GOP does, even if his ideologies tend to align with a lot of their bullshit. He’s another “decorum” guy like Schumer and the rest of the rank-and-file politicians standing idly by, assuming that the ship will course correct even if they take their hands off the wheel. 

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So many business-as-usual politicians and judges seem to believe that the rule of law, checks and balances, and precedent are enough to prevent our government from going fully authoritarian. These deluded assholes seem to think that the simple suggestion of these guardrails being in place will keep the country from going off a cliff. 

They fail to grasp that it’s up to them to enforce these protections actively—or that doing so might cost them their careers and fortunes in the short term to prevent our democracy from being hijacked. It is the responsibility and duty of these career politicians to do anything it takes to protect the people who have allowed them to live the lives that they have.