There is nothing sacrosanct about judges. They are human beings, just like the rest of us, and in any large group of people, there will be some very bad apples.
Forget, for the moment, that a fraction of our federal judges are clearly politically motivated and contemptuous about the law whenever it serves their political purposes—cough, Judge Boasberg, cough—and instead simply focus on judges who refuse to do their job for political or other reasons. Once we concede that judges can and should be impeached and get past the insane idea that judgeships should be sacrosanct, we can turn to the argument that there is something special about judges that makes them immune from criticizism and removal.
❗️⚠️🇺🇲 - A 75-year-old woman, Jeanette Marken, was permanently blinded in her right eye after a brutal, unprovoked attack in downtown Seattle on December 5, 2025.
— 🔥🗞The Informant (@theinformant_x) December 22, 2025
The assailant, 42-year-old Fale Vaigalepa Pea, allegedly approached her from behind while she waited at a crosswalk… pic.twitter.com/0oMn1icxvZ
A 75-year-old woman, Jeanette Marken, was permanently blinded in her right eye after a brutal, unprovoked attack in downtown Seattle on December 5, 2025.
The assailant, 42-year-old Fale Vaigalepa Pea, allegedly approached her from behind while she waited at a crosswalk near Third Avenue and James Street (outside the King County Courthouse) and struck her in the face with a wooden board embedded with a protruding screw, swinging it like a baseball bat.
The blow caused severe facial fractures, including a broken nose and cheekbone, and gouged out her eye.
Marken underwent emergency surgery at Harborview Medical Center, but doctors have confirmed she will not regain vision in the affected eye.
Pea, a known repeat offender with a long criminal history including prior assault convictions (one in 2011 for stabbing two people, multiple misdemeanors in 2020, 2023, and 2024), was arrested shortly after the incident by King County Sheriff's deputies.
Bodycam footage from responding Seattle police officers shows them immediately recognizing him, with one saying he is "notorious for random assaults" and a regular who "usually punches" people before escalating this time.
Despite being booked into jail eight times in 2025 alone for offenses including assault, drug possession, indecent exposure, property destruction, and unlawful use of weapons, none of those prior arrests led to felony charges until this incident.
Pea now faces first-degree assault charges and is being held on $1 million bail. He is scheduled for a competency hearing later this month, with his defense raising concerns about his mental health.
Seattle — A violent career criminal blinded an elderly woman after bashing her on the face with a stick that had a nail sticking out. The nail went into her eye. Antifa & leftists in Seattle regularly violently agitate for homeless to be allowed on streets.pic.twitter.com/R6PaA9oxKT
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) December 21, 2025
Is there a universe in which you could argue that this man, who had been arrested 8 times in 2025 for various crimes, including random assaults on people, should not have been locked up in a jail or mental institution long ago?
Obviously not. Perhaps we shouldn't do what would have been done a few hundred years ago and hang him, but obviously, he didn't belong on the streets.
Lawrence Reed was arrested 72 times.
— C3 (@C_3C_3) December 21, 2025
After an assault Judge Molina-Gonzalez denied the prosecutors petition to detain him.
She released the violent criminal into the public.
Reed then lit Bethany McGee on fire yelling “burn b1tch, burn alive.”
Judges must be held responsible. pic.twitter.com/H9TLZbpvpG
And this sort of thing happens all the time. The vast majority of crimes are committed by a small, dedicated group of repeat criminals who go in and out of the revolving door of the criminal justice system. Some of the problems are due to bad laws, bad prosecutors, and the fact that cases get pled down far too often.
A convicted rapist walks free with probation and “therapy” because of Cuomo’s no-cash bail disaster and the dangerous judges who refuse to imprison violent criminals.
— Curtis Sliwa (@CurtisSliwa) August 20, 2025
This is why women in NYC are under attack. Prosecutors begged for prison, but Judge Hanshaft sent a predator… pic.twitter.com/G5xw6JGmC4
But a lot has to do with judges who refuse to do the right thing, which happens all the time. Small or no bail for violent offenders, lenient sentences, and, to a certain extent, even rubber-stamping plea bargains that let criminals skate all the time should be grounds for removal. When Alvin Bragg downgrades a felony to a misdemeanor, the judge to whom he goes need not rubber-stamp the plea deal.
Remember the Hunter Biden case? The judge looked at the deal and balked. It can be done, you know, and should be sometimes.
The taboo on removing judges for anything other than criminality (Hannah Dugan, anyone?) is absurd. Obviously, judges should be given wide latitude in making their decisions, and removing them should not be a frequent occurrence, but it should really be much more common than it is.
There are a lot of bad judges.
As for Boasberg, the federal judge I avoided writing about? The case for his impeachment is so obvious that it hardly bears explanation.
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