In unprecedented move, Kentucky House votes to impeach Fayette Circuit Judge Goodman

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Source: Lexington Herald Leader

Politics & Government

In unprecedented move, Kentucky House votes to impeach Fayette Circuit Judge Goodman

By Taylor Six and Hannah Pinski Updated March 20, 2026 5:40 PM

The Kentucky House of Representatives on Friday voted to impeach a Fayette County judge after a committee issued articles of impeachment against her earlier this week.

In a 73-to-14 vote Friday, the House approved the articles of impeachment against Fayette Circuit Judge Julie Muth Goodman, sending the matter to the Senate for a trial.

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Read more: https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article315126031.html

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Lemon Pound Cake Hat
‪@kenwhite.bsky.social‬

You have to dig through a bunch of links to find out what she was accused of, and it will surprise nobody: most of the complaints were that she ruled in favor of criminal defendants and against prosecutors.

apps.legislature.ky.gov/CommitteeDoc...
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/CommitteeDocuments/397/43997/Goodman%20Response.pdf
apps.legislature.ky.gov

‪Taniel‬
‪@taniel.bsky.social‬
· 6h
Kentucky Republicans just impeached a local judge who has been elected six times by Fayette County (Lexington) voters. They say she has been defying precedents:

https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article315126031.html

In unprecedented move, Kentucky House votes to impeach Fayette Circuit Judge Goodman
The last time a sitting judge was impeached in Kentucky was more than 100 years ago; that judge was not convicted and removed from office.
www.kentucky.com
1:02 PM · Mar 20, 2026

You have to dig through a bunch of links to find out what she was accused of, and it will surprise nobody: most of the complaints were that she ruled in favor of criminal defendants and against prosecutors.

apps.legislature.ky.gov/CommitteeDoc...

— Lemon Pound Cake Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) 2026-03-20T17:02:33.828Z

Taniel
‪@taniel.bsky.social‬

Kentucky Republicans just impeached a local judge who has been elected six times by Fayette County (Lexington) voters. They say she has been defying precedents:

https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article315126031.html

In unprecedented move, Kentucky House votes to impeach Fayette Circuit Judge Goodman
The last time a sitting judge was impeached in Kentucky was more than 100 years ago; that judge was not convicted and removed from office.
www.kentucky.com
12:09 PM · Mar 20, 2026

Kentucky Republicans just impeached a local judge who has been elected six times by Fayette County (Lexington) voters. They say she has been defying precedents:

www.kentucky.com/news/politic...

— Taniel (@taniel.bsky.social) 2026-03-20T16:09:05.960Z

[FadedMullet]

1. We are still paying a price as a society for the "Bill Clinton Haters Caucus" of the GOP who impeached him in 1998. They

......lost their minds and made impeachment somehow acceptable for punishing the other side of the aisle, instead of a recourse against true criminality.

[reACTIONary]

2. It wasn't impeachment, but in 1986.....

..... California voters removed Chief Justice Rose Bird and Justices Joseph Grodin and Cruz Reynoso due to their opposition to the death penalty.

This sounds like a similar law-n-order vendetta.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Rose Bird-- there's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

Thanks, and good evening.

[FadedMullet]

4. The Governor Deukmejian years followed Ronnie Reagan's term with more idiotic Conservatism, but were.......

........separated in true Californian craziness, by Jerry Brown. Built a lot of new prisons back then.

[Bayard]

5. Our General Assembly make up

Republicans hold a 32-6 or 31-7 majority in the Senate, and an 80-20 majority in the House of Representatives. They've overriden more than a hundred of Gov. Beshear's vetoes.

They are a basket of deplorables.