Democrats are the party of double standards. Violence is good when it's leftwing violence. Calling for impeaching judges is moral when democrats do it.....
https://unherd.com/newsroom/why-do-democrats-get-a-free-pass-on-impeaching-judges/
No judge is in danger of being impeached by Republicans, and no Supreme Court justice is in danger of being impeached by Democrats. After the fall of Roe, Democrats started to threaten one-sided impeachments of GOP-appointed justices. Republicans are now calling for the impeachment of Judge James Boasberg, who on Saturday sought to block Donald Trump’s deportation of Venezuelan migrants. Both parties lack the political power to pull off these votes, which would require two-thirds of the Senate, but outrage from the political class misses half of the story.
Conservative Chief Justice John Roberts took the unusual step of issuing a statement this week to rebuke calls for Boasberg’s impeachment. But as the law professor Josh Blackman points out, there was no such statement to rebuke high-profile Democrats’ entirely politicised calls for his fellow conservative justices to be impeached last year. There wasn’t, for example, a single peep from Roberts after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called to impeach Samuel Alito, or when Democrats demanded the same of Clarence Thomas. Similarly, he did not release a statement when Sen. Ron Wyden called on then-President Joe Biden to ignore a ruling on mifepristone, as some on the Right are doing now with Boasberg. “I realise that Chief Justice Roberts is hitting the panic button,” adds Blackman, “but his protest has started a bit too late.”
https://unherd.com/newsroom/why-do-democrats-get-a-free-pass-on-impeaching-judges/
No judge is in danger of being impeached by Republicans, and no Supreme Court justice is in danger of being impeached by Democrats. After the fall of Roe, Democrats started to threaten one-sided impeachments of GOP-appointed justices. Republicans are now calling for the impeachment of Judge James Boasberg, who on Saturday sought to block Donald Trump’s deportation of Venezuelan migrants. Both parties lack the political power to pull off these votes, which would require two-thirds of the Senate, but outrage from the political class misses half of the story.
Conservative Chief Justice John Roberts took the unusual step of issuing a statement this week to rebuke calls for Boasberg’s impeachment. But as the law professor Josh Blackman points out, there was no such statement to rebuke high-profile Democrats’ entirely politicised calls for his fellow conservative justices to be impeached last year. There wasn’t, for example, a single peep from Roberts after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called to impeach Samuel Alito, or when Democrats demanded the same of Clarence Thomas. Similarly, he did not release a statement when Sen. Ron Wyden called on then-President Joe Biden to ignore a ruling on mifepristone, as some on the Right are doing now with Boasberg. “I realise that Chief Justice Roberts is hitting the panic button,” adds Blackman, “but his protest has started a bit too late.”
