{"id":6196,"date":"2025-05-31T07:59:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T07:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/words-matter-9th-circuit-judge-says-in-condemning-impeachment-threats\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T07:59:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T07:59:26","slug":"words-matter-9th-circuit-judge-says-in-condemning-impeachment-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/words-matter-9th-circuit-judge-says-in-condemning-impeachment-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Words Matter,\u2019 9th Circuit Judge Says in Condemning Impeachment Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p><i>Happy Friday, and welcome to another roundup of the week\u2019s news about the judiciary. This week, we\u2019ll take a look at comments made by Ninth Circuit Judge M. Margaret McKeown during a webinar for lawyers. McKeown warned of the dangers of impeachment threats against judges and the rule of law generally.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-1c1aa57e=\"\">\n<p><i>As always, please reach out to me at [email\u00a0protected] with any tips or feedback and follow me on X at @AvalonZoppo or Bluesky at @avalonzoppo.bsky.social.<\/i><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Words Matter\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Yet another federal appeals court judge is speaking out about the dangers of threatening judges with impeachment over their rulings.<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Friday, and welcome to another roundup of the week\u2019s news about the judiciary. This week, we\u2019ll take a look at comments made by Ninth Circuit Judge M. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1676,610,5325,5037,423,6149,2080,6148],"class_list":["post-6196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-9th","tag-circuit","tag-condemning","tag-impeachment","tag-judge","tag-matter","tag-threats","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}