On Judicial Impeachments
Over at The Dispatch, I have a new piece on the impeachment of federal judges. In a Truth social post, President Donald Trump did what no sitting president has done before, publicly called for the impeachment of a federal judge. In doing so, he stoked the flames of MAGA world which, since the start of President Trump’s second term, has become very unhappy with the third branch of government. People of influence and power are now regularly floating extreme solutions to Trump’s judicial problem, and impeachment is just one of the options apparently on the table.
As a practical matter impeachment is not easy, as Trump’s own first term of office amply demonstrated. As a matter of constitutional principle, the abuse of power by a federal judge might well jus
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