Florida AG Moves to Impeach Judge Who Freed Mother Who Drowned Her Baby

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is filing articles of impeachment against a Miami judge who acquitted a mother who drowned her 15-month-old child.

In August 2021, Precious Bland drowned her baby and stabbed her husband and teenage daughter when they tried to stop her. After nearly five years, she stood trial and pled insanity, claiming she had a “psychotic break” due to Covid stress. At the time of the drowning, she allegedly screamed, “Jesus Christ is coming, and Covid is going to kill us all!”

Judge Miguel de la O accepted the insanity defense and acquitted Bland.

“Jesus Christ is coming, and Covid is going to kill us all!” — Precious Bland, moments before drowning her 15-month-old

In a recent press conference, Uthmeier called out other cases where judges refused to punish dangerous criminals. He cited a man released after attempted murder who later killed three tourists, and a child sex offender who murdered his five-year-old stepdaughter after being freed. All pled insanity and were quietly released by judges refusing to administer the law as written.

Governor Ron DeSantis immediately endorsed Uthmeier’s impeachment move, calling on the state legislature to “do its duty” and vote to impeach these judges.

If Florida’s legislature follows through and removes Judge de la O from office, it could signal a massive shift in criminal justice across the nation.

For too long, judges have flouted the law and put criminals back on the streets. Following principles of Critical Legal Theory — which holds that the law supports a power dynamic favoring the historically privileged — they actively subvert the legal process. This usually translates to accepting bogus claims of mental incompetence, issuing lighter sentences for serious crimes, and seeking alternatives to incarceration.

All over the country, even in red states like Florida, these judges have systematically undermined the legal process.

More often than not, arrested criminals are simply sent right back to commit more crimes. And typically, nothing can be done about it. Ostensibly, impeachment of judges is reserved for legal misconduct, not egregiously bad rulings.

Uthmeier is finally blowing through these excuses and holding judges accountable. If they are applying a different standard on criminals because of their race or because they think the law is fundamentally unjust, then they themselves are violating the law and must face consequences.

Americans should not have to tolerate any of this. Decades of decay easily prove that more leniency for criminals does not result in a safer society. Rather, it has aggravated division between racial groups and social classes.

So much collective anxiety could be relieved if the actual perpetrators of injustice — both the criminals and the judges that enable them — were removed once and for all.

Citizens must be able to trust the justice system again before they can trust one another. Uthmeier and Florida legislators have a chance to rectify a great evil and set an example for other state governments.

Americans should take notice and start demanding the same of their own state’s leadership.

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