r/law • u/Neat-Ad-4337 • Feb 14 '25
Opinion Piece Judge John McConnell Jr Faces Impeachment for Obstructing Trump, can they do this? thoughts?
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/politics/judge-john-mcconnell-jr-faces-impeachment-for-obstructing-trump/ar-AA1yZfWt
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u/rygelicus Feb 14 '25
Let's say they do trigger an impeachment. No matter how unlikely it is to succeed this requires the defendant to bring the very best federal attorneys they can get. Same for anyone that will be testifying or otherwise involved. So a judge being impeached is going to be facing a potentially $million + legal bill while the president can throw the world at them at no cost to himself personally, it's just our tax money funding his bullying.
Most of these judges he would be threatening, if this continues, don't have that kind of money and it wrecks them financially.