Trump Judge to be impeached

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/judiciary-refers-ex-alaska-judge-us-house-potential-impeachment-2024-09-12/


The federal judiciary's top policymaking body has made a referral to the U.S. House of Representatives for lawmakers to consider potentially impeaching a now-former federal judge in Alaska who resigned after being accused of sexual misconduct.
A spokesperson for Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday said he had received a letter containing a notification from the U.S. Judicial Conference of possible grounds for former U.S. District Judge Joshua Kindred's impeachment.


The referral was a rarity for the Judicial Conference, which U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts heads. It last made such a referral in 2015. Only 15 judges have ever been impeached, and only eight have been convicted by the Senate.
It was unclear what the House would do with the referral. While Kindred is no longer in office, he could be barred from holding any federal office in the future if he was impeached in the Republican-controlled House and convicted in the Democratic-led Senate.
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Fill me in please

[House of Roberts]

1. They could replace him with Aileen Cannon,

assuming a replacement hasn't already been confirmed.

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2. ... Kindred resigned on July 8, 2024. On the day of his resignation, the Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit

released a report finding that Kindred had engaged in judicial misconduct by creating a sexually hostile workplace environment for clerks employed in his chambers, by having an inappropriate sexualized relationship with a clerk during and after her time working for Kindred, and for having "deliberately lied" to investigators ...

In October 2013, Kindred married lawyer Talitha "Tali" Birch, daughter of Alaska politician Chris Birch. They have two children. They divorced in 2023.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Kindred

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4. Thanks

[Stardust Mirror]

3. now do the drunk rapist

Kavanaugh