Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) announced Wednesday that he is drafting articles of impeachment against U.S. District Judge John McConnell Jr., who was appointed by Barack Obama.
Clyde wrote on X:
“I’m drafting articles of impeachment for U.S. District Judge John McConnell Jr..”
“He’s a partisan activist weaponizing our judicial system to stop President Trump’s funding freeze on woke and wasteful government spending. We must end this abusive overreach. Stay tuned.”
There is a video showing a brazen Judge McConnell making racist and other objectionable comments:
McConnell: “When you’re sentencing someone, you have to take a moment and realize that this middle-class, white, male, privileged person needs to understand the human being that comes before us. That may be a woman, may be Black, may be transgender, may be poor, may be rich, may be whatever—may have experiences that are not yours. And you have to walk in their shoes and understand that the law applies to them where they are. And then you have to apply the law accordingly.”
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELMcConnell: “So, why should you care? You should care because we’re the only things that stand in between an oppressive, arbitrary government and actions by individuals, or by the majority.
Oftentimes, I mean, when we saw the Jim Crow laws and whatnot, where courts stand and enforce the rule of law against arbitrary and capricious actions by what could be a tyrant, or what we’ve seen plenty of examples of that [during Trump’s administration] . And it enforces our values.”
McConnell: “We haven’t publicly announced this yet—we only have internally—but we have put together a Diversity and Inclusion and Racial Justice Committee that has three goals. One is to look internally. I don’t think we can solve this problem until, um, we look at ourselves.
But the committee has stated its mission in understanding that, in many ways, racism is a white people’s problem, and white people need to figure out how to solve it and need to do the hard work to fix it. So, we have formed the committee to look at race in our courts.
McConnell: “Federal court in Rhode Island is a sad example of a lack of racial diversity. We have five judicial officers: three judges and two magistrate judges, all white. We have, finally, two women. We didn’t have that for the longest time—judges, one judge and one magistrate judge. The majority of our court staff is white.
It’s a great place to work, so people don’t leave, so that’s been very hard to impact. I’ve not, you know, not—we’ve not had a new hire, I think, in many years there because people stick around. And so, we’re a sad example of it, which is why we need to put in place…
On the other hand, our probation department, which works directly with people once they get out of the criminal justice system.
When I got there, it was all white. And when we hired a new probation officer, we said, ‘This can’t be. This just cannot be any longer.’ And we immediately got four openings, just happened to be, and we filled them with people of color. And we’ve now changed the probation department.
Just think about it for a second, in that empathetic sort of way. You’re an African-American young man who is predominantly a criminal defendant, and you get walked into a court, and our court is majestic. I mean, it is.”
