“Impeaching Deborah Boardman, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, for high crimes and misdemeanors.”
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This section impeaches Deborah Boardman, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, for high crimes and misdemeanors and for violating the constitutional standard for continuance in judicial office of good behavior, and directs that an article of impeachment be exhibited to the Senate.
This section charges U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman with high crimes and misdemeanors and conduct violating the constitutional good behavior standard—warranting her removal from office—for allegedly using her judicial position to interfere with the President's enforcement prerogatives by sentencing Nicholas John Roske, convicted of attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on June 7, 2022, to eight years imprisonment and lifetime supervised release instead of the Department of Justice's recommended 30-year term. It cites Judge Boardman's consideration of Roske's transgender identity claim in sentencing, despite his premeditated planning—including travel from California to Maryland armed with a firearm, zip ties, tactical tools, and research on killing methods and Supreme Court justices' homes—as an ideological deviation from her oath of impartiality that undermines the rule of law.