Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) has filed articles of impeachment against U.S. District Judge Deborah L. Boardman of the District of Maryland after she gave a lenient sentence to a transgender-identifying individual who sought to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
“U.S. District Court Judge Deborah Boardman deserves to be impeached for her absurd 8-year sentence of a man convicted of attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and his family,” Roy said in a statement. “Boardman unequivocally based this weak sentence on the attempted assassin’s ‘gender identity,’ as the attempted assassin expressed that he views himself as a woman. Instead of doing what the Judiciary calls for and sentencing this man to the base 30-year sentence recommended by the Department of Justice, Judge Boardman purposefully allowed this man off easy.”
“Judge Boardman should be impeached swiftly and without reservation,” Roy added.
Nicholas John Roske, who was arrested outside Kavanaugh’s Maryland home armed with a handgun, ammunition, and burglary tools, now goes by “Sophie” Roske.
The impeachment articles state that Boardman, “in violation of her oath of office, did knowingly and willfully use her judicial position to knowingly interfere with the President’s constitutional prerogatives and enforcement of the rule of law.”
“Judge Boardman’s indefensibly light sentence undermines the gravity of the offense committed by Roske and the assault it represented on our Constitution and the rule of law by targeting a Supreme Court Justice,” the articles add, further condemning her “personal feelings of Roske identifying as a transgender woman to influence her sentencing decision in her high office.”
The filing goes on to assert that Boardman “interfered with the will of the people and Congress that have codified statute to impose appropriate sentences for those who intend to kill federal judges, ignoring the 30-year sentence recommendation by the Department of Justice.”
