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Washington’s permanent class of activist judges is finally being put on notice as a Senate hearing this week took aim at what GOP lawmakers rightly call “rogue judges” — specifically naming U.S. District Judges James Boasberg and Deborah Boardman for rulings that have trampled executive authority and alarmed conservatives. Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Tom Dupree appeared on the record explaining why Capitol Hill is taking a harder look at judges who habitually overreach.
Judge James Boasberg’s hardline interventions into immigration policy and his threat of criminal contempt against the executive branch for carrying out deportation flights exposed the rot of judicial micromanagement of national security decisions. His blunt assertion that government officials may have “willfully disregarded” a court order over the administration’s actions sparked outrage and raised a fundamental constitutional question about which branch — not which activist judge — gets to enforce immigration laws.
Conservative Americans should not be surprised that Boasberg’s courtroom crusade prompted emergency appeals and a furious legal tug-of-war; judges who act like presidents deserve scrutiny, not praise. The Justice Department’s rapid appeals and the D.C. Circuit’s intervention show this was never a mere legal skirmish but a constitutional fight over separation of powers, one the bench should not be allowed to win by fiat.
Meanwhile, Judge Deborah Boardman’s recent sentencing in the attempted assassination case involving an individual who targeted Justice Kavanaugh has ignited legitimate conservative fury over leniency and judicial priorities. Boardman’s decision to impose a sentence far below what prosecutors sought alarmed victims of political violence and raised questions about whether certain judges are more sympathetic to ideology than to deterrence and public safety.
This Senate hearing is not theater — it is overdue accountability. Congress has every right to probe how lifetime judicial power is being used or abused, and responsible lawmakers should pursue legislative fixes that rein in nationwide injunctions, clarify the reach of district courts, and restore the balance between branches so that judges cannot single-handedly rewrite policy enacted by the American people.
Patriots who believe in the rule of law should demand more than talk: insist on real reforms, support senators willing to hold recalcitrant judges to account, and reject the complacent notion that robes confer unchallengeable supremacy. The hearing is a warning shot to any jurist who thinks they answer to ideology instead of the Constitution — and Republican leaders must turn that warning into durable changes that protect American self-governance.
