IV 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 157 
Impeaching John Deacon Bates, a judge of the United States District Court 
for the District of Columbia, for high crimes and misdemeanors. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 24, 2025 
Mr. OGLES submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
RESOLUTION 
Impeaching John Deacon Bates, a judge of the United States 
District Court for the District of Columbia, for high 
crimes and misdemeanors. 
Resolved, That John Deacon Bates, a judge of the 
United States District Court for the District of Columbia, 
is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that 
the following article of impeachment be exhibited to the 
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 
America, against John Deacon Bates, a judge of the 
United States District Court for the District of Columbia, 
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in maintenance and support of its impeachment against 
him for high crimes and misdemeanors. 
ARTICLE I 
John Deacon Bates, a judge of the United States 
District Court for the District of Columbia, engaged in 
a pattern of conduct that is incompatible with the trust 
and confidence placed in him as a Federal judge, as fol-
lows: 
Judge Bates ordered the Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Health and 
Human Services (HHS), and the Food and Drug Adminis-
tration (FDA) to restore socially divisive and destructive 
LGBTQI+ content on taxpayer subsidized government 
webpages, in contravention of Executive Order 14168 
(January 20, 2025): 
Judge Bates, in granting a temporary restraining 
order to the far-left organization, Doctors for America, ar-
gued that ‘‘by removing long relied upon medical resources 
without explanation, it is likely that the [sic] each agency 
failed to ‘examine the relevant data and articulate a satis-
factory explanation for its action’ ’’. He further argued 
that the agencies did not consider ‘‘the substantial reliance 
by medical professionals on the removed webpages’’. 
Judge Bates failed to consider that these webpages 
maintained informational resources on gender affirming 
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care—better described as the intentional surgical or chem-
ical castration of children—and that at no time in the his-
tory of the American judicial system, until very recently, 
would judges have considered the purposeful damage to 
the bodies of healthy young men and women to be a com-
pelling or even legitimate health concern. To the contrary, 
it is the opinion of this Congress that the continued social-
ization of this grave moral evil necessitates immediate ac-
tion against those who would promote it. 
Accordingly, Judge John Deacon Bates, has engaged 
in conduct so utterly lacking in intellectual honesty and 
basic integrity that he is guilty of high crimes and mis-
demeanors, is unfit to hold the office of Federal judge, 
and should be removed from office. 
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