Veteran US Judges Slap Back at GOP Calls for Impeachment (1)

As Republican lawmakers seek to impeach judges for slowing President Donald Trump’s agenda, two leaders of the US judiciary issued rare public remarks condemning those actions as threats to the independence of judges.

Criticism is “part of the job,” said Judge Jeffrey Sutton, who was appointed by George W. Bush to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in 2003 and has been the chair of the US Judicial Conference since 2021. “But I do think when it gets to the level of a threat, it really is about attacking judicial independence, and that’s just not good for the ...