119-hres818

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 818 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
H. RES. 818

Impeaching Deborah Boardman, Judge of the United States District Court 
 for the District of Maryland, for high crimes and misdemeanors.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 October 17, 2025

 Mr. Roy (for himself, Mr. Brecheen, Mrs. Luna, Mr. Higgins of 
 Louisiana, Mr. Babin, and Mrs. Miller of Illinois) submitted the 
 following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the 
 Judiciary

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 RESOLUTION

Impeaching Deborah Boardman, Judge of the United States District Court 
 for the District of Maryland, for high crimes and misdemeanors.

 Resolved, That Deborah Boardman, Judge of the United States 
District Court for the District of Maryland, is impeached for high 
crimes and misdemeanors and for violating the constitutional standard 
for continuance in judicial office of ``good behavior'', and that the 
following article of removal be exhibited to the United States Senate.
 Article of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives 
of the United States of America in the name of itself and of the people 
of the United States of America, against Deborah Boardman, Judge of the 
United States District Court for the District of Maryland, in 
maintenance and support of its impeachment against her for high crimes 
and misdemeanors and for violating the constitutional standard for 
continuance in judicial office of ``good behavior''.

 article i: willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law

 Judge 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.
 The Constitution grants Congress the authority to create, 
eliminate, and regulate all Federal courts inferior to the Supreme 
Court. 

Section 1 of Article III of the Constitution provides that 
``[t]he Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold 
their Offices during good Behavior'', thereby granting Congress the 
authority to remove a judge who fails to remain in good behavior while 
in office.
 Through her conduct, in which she violated her oath to the 
Constitution and duty of impartiality to the people of the United 
States, Judge Boardman has abused the powers of her judicial authority, 
having engaged in actions that deviate from the law and toward 
political ideology as follows:

    (1) On October 3, 2025, Judge Boardman sentenced the 
 defendant, Nicholas John Roske, found guilty of attempting to 
 assassinate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Michael Kavanaugh 
 on June 7, 2022, to eight years and a lifetime of supervised 
 release instead of the 30-year sentence recommended by the 
 Department of Justice.

    (2) Roske traveled by aircraft from his home in Simi 
 Valley, California, to Chevy Chase, Maryland, where Justice 
 Kavanaugh resides with his family, resulting in his arrest 
 outside of Justice Kavanaugh's home with a firearm with a laser 
 sight attachment, admitting to wanting to inflict harm. Roske 
 was also equipped with zip ties, a tactical knife, pepper 
 spray, a hammer, a screwdriver, a nail punch, a crowbar, duct 
 tape, a pistol light, and was wearing padded boots to minimize 
 noise.

    (3) Roske spoke to a Montgomery County emergency 
 communication center operator to detail his thoughts while 
 standing outside Justice Kavanaugh's home. He said that he 
 traveled from California to Maryland ``to kill a specific 
 United States Supreme Court justice''.

    (4) In May and June of 2022, before the attempted 
 assassination, Roske's cell phone history showed repeated 
 internet searches for ``quietest semi auto rifle,'' ``how to 
 quietly knock someone out,'' ``most effective place to stab 
 someone,'' ``most effective way to silently kill someone,'' 
 ``how much force do you need to stab someone's neck,'' ``best 
 way to break into a house,'' ``how to make handcuffs with zip 
 ties,'' and ``does the secret service protect supreme court 
 justices''.

    (5) The Department of Justice's sentencing memorandum of 
 Roske's detailed how he ``researched, planned, and attempted to 
 assassinate at least one--but had a stated target of three--
 sitting judges of the United States Supreme Court''.

    (6) The Department of Justice also noted Roske intended to 
 ``. . . murder up to three justices in total, and try to evade 
 prosecution by leaving no evidence, claiming an insanity 
 defense, or fleeing to a non-extraditing country''.

    (7) The Department of Justice outlined Roske's criminal 
 conduct of attempting to assassination of a Supreme Court 
 Justice required extensive premeditation, as he extensively 
 researched the home addresses of Supreme Court justices and 
 marked their homes on Google Maps, obtained weapons and other 
 tools to eventually use them for killing and traveled across 
 the country with those items, and researched how to infiltrate 
 private residences without detection.

    (8) Roske attempted to delete any online evidence of motive 
 and intent.

    (9) Judge Boardman accepted the delusional fiction that 
 Roske--a biological male--has become a woman and then based her 
 sentencing decision on that claim, saying, ``I take into 
 consideration the conditions of pre-trial confinement and the 
 fact that she is a transgender woman,'' apparently because the 
 pre-trial detention facility in which Roske was confined does 
 not, of course, indulge this fiction.

    (10) Attorney General Bondi said of Judge Boardman's 
 decision, ``. . .the judge Boardman also would not refer to the 
 defendant by his biological name''.

    (11) 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.

    (12) Judge Boardman's sentencing decision is an egregious 
 instance of a judge allowing her ideology to subvert the 
 TRUTH--which is irreconcilable with the bedrock function of the 
 judicial process and violates the constitutional standard for 
 continuance in judicial office of ``good behavior.''
 This conduct undermines the orderly functioning of the judiciary by 
providing an exceptionally low sentence for a defendant who 
methodically planned to execute multiple assassinations of sitting 
Supreme Court justices by extensively researching what weapons and 
tools to procure, researching the home addresses of Supreme Court 
justices and saving them onto his smart phone, and inquiring how to 
infiltrate private residences without detection and how to incapacitate 
and kill individuals.
 Allowing her personal feelings of Roske identifying as a 
transgender woman to influence her sentencing decision in her high 
office, Judge 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.
 In so doing, Judge Boardman used the powers of her position to 
engage in actions that undermine judicial authority. By making a 
political decision outside the scope of her legal duties, she 
compromised the impartiality of our judicial system.
 Wherefore, Judge Deborah Boardman is guilty of high crimes and 
misdemeanors and of conduct that violates the constitute standard of 
good behavior, and she should be removed from office.
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