IV 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 818 
Impeaching Deborah Boardman, Judge of the United States District Court 
for the District of Maryland, for high crimes and misdemeanors. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 17, 2025 
Mr. ROY (for himself, Mr. BRECHEEN, Mrs. LUNA, Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana, 
Mr. BABIN, and Mrs. MILLER of Illinois) submitted the following resolu-
tion; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
RESOLUTION 
Impeaching Deborah Boardman, Judge of the United States 
District Court for the District of Maryland, for high 
crimes and misdemeanors. 
Resolved, That Deborah Boardman, Judge of the 
United States District Court for the District of Maryland, 
is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and for 
violating the constitutional standard for continuance in ju-
dicial office of ‘‘good behavior’’, and that the following ar-
ticle of removal be exhibited to the United States Senate. 
Article of impeachment exhibited by the House of 
Representatives of the United States of America in the 
name of itself and of the people of the United States of 
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America, against Deborah Boardman, Judge of the United 
States District Court for the District of Maryland, in 
maintenance and support of its impeachment against her 
for high crimes and misdemeanors and for violating the 
constitutional standard for continuance in judicial office 
of ‘‘good behavior’’. 
ARTICLE I: WILLFUL AND SYSTEMIC REFUSAL TO COMPLY 
WITH THE LAW 
Judge Boardman, in violation of her oath of office, 
did knowingly and willfully use her judicial position to 
knowingly interfere with the President’s constitutional 
prerogatives and enforcement of the rule of law. 
The Constitution grants Congress the authority to 
create, eliminate, and regulate all Federal courts inferior 
to the Supreme Court. Section 1 of Article III of the Con-
stitution provides that ‘‘[t]he Judges, both of the supreme 
and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good 
Behavior’’, thereby granting Congress the authority to re-
move a judge who fails to remain in good behavior while 
in office. 
Through her conduct, in which she violated her oath 
to the Constitution and duty of impartiality to the people 
of the United States, Judge Boardman has abused the 
powers of her judicial authority, having engaged in actions 
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that deviate from the law and toward political ideology as 
follows: 
(1) On October 3, 2025, Judge Boardman sen-
tenced the defendant, Nicholas John Roske, found 
guilty of attempting to assassinate U.S. Supreme 
Court Justice Brett Michael Kavanaugh on June 7, 
2022, to eight years and a lifetime of supervised re-
lease instead of the 30-year sentence recommended 
by the Department of Justice. 
(2) Roske traveled by aircraft from his home in 
Simi Valley, California, to Chevy Chase, Maryland, 
where Justice Kavanaugh resides with his family, re-
sulting in his arrest outside of Justice Kavanaugh’s 
home with a firearm with a laser sight attachment, 
admitting to wanting to inflict harm. Roske was also 
equipped with zip ties, a tactical knife, pepper spray, 
a hammer, a screwdriver, a nail punch, a crowbar, 
duct tape, a pistol light, and was wearing padded 
boots to minimize noise. 
(3) Roske spoke to a Montgomery County emer-
gency communication center operator to detail his 
thoughts while standing outside Justice Kavanaugh’s 
home. He said that he traveled from California to 
Maryland ‘‘to kill a specific United States Supreme 
Court justice’’. 
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(4) In May and June of 2022, before the at-
tempted assassination, Roske’s cell phone history 
showed repeated internet searches for ‘‘quietest semi 
auto rifle,’’ ‘‘how to quietly knock someone out,’’ 
‘‘most effective place to stab someone,’’ ‘‘most effec-
tive way to silently kill someone,’’ ‘‘how much force 
do you need to stab someone’s neck,’’ ‘‘best way to 
break into a house,’’ ‘‘how to make handcuffs with 
zip ties,’’ and ‘‘does the secret service protect su-
preme court justices’’. 
(5) The Department of Justice’s sentencing 
memorandum of Roske’s detailed how he ‘‘re-
searched, planned, and attempted to assassinate at 
least one—but had a stated target of three—sitting 
judges of the United States Supreme Court’’. 
(6) The Department of Justice also noted 
Roske intended to ‘‘. . . murder up to three justices 
in total, and try to evade prosecution by leaving no 
evidence, claiming an insanity defense, or fleeing to 
a non-extraditing country’’. 
(7) The Department of Justice outlined Roske’s 
criminal conduct of attempting to assassination of a 
Supreme 
Court 
Justice 
required 
extensive 
premeditation, as he extensively researched the home 
addresses of Supreme Court justices and marked 
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their homes on Google Maps, obtained weapons and 
other tools to eventually use them for killing and 
traveled across the country with those items, and re-
searched how to infiltrate private residences without 
detection. 
(8) Roske attempted to delete any online evi-
dence of motive and intent. 
(9) Judge Boardman accepted the delusional 
fiction that Roske—a biological male—has become a 
woman and then based her sentencing decision on 
that claim, saying, ‘‘I take into consideration the 
conditions of pre-trial confinement and the fact that 
she is a transgender woman,’’ apparently because 
the pre-trial detention facility in which Roske was 
confined does not, of course, indulge this fiction. 
(10) Attorney General Bondi said of Judge 
Boardman’s decision, ‘‘. . .the judge Boardman also 
would not refer to the defendant by his biological 
name’’. 
(11) Judge Boardman’s indefensibly light sen-
tence undermines the gravity of the offense com-
mitted by Roske and the assault it represented on 
our Constitution and the rule of law by targeting a 
Supreme Court Justice. 
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(12) Judge Boardman’s sentencing decision is 
an egregious instance of a judge allowing her ide-
ology to subvert the TRUTH—which is irreconcil-
able with the bedrock function of the judicial process 
and violates the constitutional standard for continu-
ance in judicial office of ‘‘good behavior.’’ 
This conduct undermines the orderly functioning of 
the judiciary by providing an exceptionally low sentence 
for a defendant who methodically planned to execute mul-
tiple assassinations of sitting Supreme Court justices by 
extensively researching what weapons and tools to procure, 
researching the home addresses of Supreme Court justices 
and saving them onto his smart phone, and inquiring how 
to infiltrate private residences without detection and how 
to incapacitate and kill individuals. 
Allowing her personal feelings of Roske identifying as 
a transgender woman to influence her sentencing decision 
in her high office, Judge Boardman interfered with the 
will of the people and Congress that have codified statute 
to impose appropriate sentences for those who intend to 
kill Federal judges, ignoring the 30-year sentence rec-
ommendation by the Department of Justice. 
In so doing, Judge Boardman used the powers of her 
position to engage in actions that undermine judicial au-
thority. By making a political decision outside the scope 
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of her legal duties, she compromised the impartiality of 
our judicial system. 
Wherefore, Judge Deborah Boardman is guilty of 
high crimes and misdemeanors and of conduct that vio-
lates the constitute standard of good behavior, and she 
should be removed from office. 
Æ 
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