When in Doubt, Impeach!
I really wanted to roast Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) today, but have no fear, there will be plenty of opportunity to give the coveted Brain-Dead Moron of the Week award to that knuckle-dragging troglodyte real soon. So the Golden Dunce Cap goes to Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) this week for his ignorant and idiotic introduction of articles of impeachment against Judge James Boasberg, chief judge of the D.C. District Court.
Well, bless his heart, Gill has decided that the best way to uphold democracy is to start booting federal judges out of office for making legal decisions he doesn’t like. You know, the ones that don’t align with Herr Pumpkinführer, his personal worldview, his party’s playbook, or possibly the signs he reads from the stars. Spoiler alert there Skippy…Judge Boasberg has forgotten more about constitutional law than you ever knew.
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
James Madison, Federalist No. 47
Now, just to review, federal judges are appointed for life. That’s in the Constitution, which Rep. Dimwit swears he holds dear—except for the parts he finds inconvenient, like the whole “separation of powers” thing. See, judges are supposed to interpret the law, not just rubber-stamp whatever political fever dream is floating through Congress at the moment. But this Tool seems to think their job is more like customer service: “Sir, I’m sorry your ruling didn’t come out the way you wanted. Would you like to speak to a manager? Oh wait, you are the manager!”
The real kicker is that impeachment is supposed to be reserved for things like bribery or, say, using one’s judicial office to run a moonshine business out of the courthouse basement. Not for writing an opinion that makes a congressman cranky. But Rep. Mussolini, uh I mean Gill figures if he can’t get the rulings he wants the fair and legal way, he’ll just throw a legislative tantrum until the courts resemble an all-you-can-eat buffet of partisan rulings.
If this logic takes off, we might as well start impeaching referees for bad calls, weathermen for rain on the Fourth of July, and librarians for recommending books with too many big words (you know, the kind that he’s too stupid to read).
At this rate, Rep. Gill may want to impeach reality itself. But that ruling’s already in—he lost.
So, the Brain-Dead Moron of the Week award goes to Brandon Gill, just another chapter in the Donny Horror Picture Show.
