Chief Justice Roberts Speaks Out Against Impeaching Judges for Their Decisions

CNN reports that Chief Justice Roberts rebukes Trump and GOP rhetoric about impeaching judges | CNN Politics (Mar. 18, 2025).

John Fritze wrotethat:

Chief Justice John Roberts pushed back on President Donald Trump’s escalating rhetoric against the federal judiciary on Tuesday in a highly unusual statement that appeared to be aimed at the president’s call to impeach judges who rule against him.

“For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Roberts said in a statement released by the Supreme Court. “The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”

Roberts’ statement did not mention Trump by name, but it came hours after the president stepped up his attacks on federal judges by specifically calling for Judge James Boasberg, who has temporarily blocked the deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members, to be impeached.

The Hon. Paul W. Grimm (ret.) has long made the same points, and I have echoed them in multiple blogs. Links to all of them are provided in the most recent one, Protecting the Judiciary – Analysis of Judicial Impeachment (Mar. 15, 2025).