Deborah L. Boardman

In CASA, Inc. v. Trump, Civ. No. DLB-25-201 (D. Md.), plaintiffs challenged Executive Order 14160, “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” signed January 20, 2025. On February 5, 2025, Judge Deborah L. Boardman issued a memorandum opinion (ECF 65) and a three-page order (ECF 66). The order states that named cabinet officers and persons in active concert with them “are ENJOINED throughout these United States from implementing and enforcing the Executive Order until further order of this Court.” A preliminary injunction is not a Supreme Court holding on the merits of the Order.

Quote, verified from ECF 65: “The plaintiffs easily have met the standard for a preliminary injunction. There is a very strong likelihood of success on the merits.” Quote, verified from ECF 66: “The Executive Order contradicts the plain language of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and conflicts with binding Supreme Court precedent, United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898).”

Trump v. CASA, Inc., No. 24A884 (U.S. June 27, 2025), with companion applications, addressed whether federal courts have equitable authority to issue universal injunctions. Justice Barrett wrote for a 6–3 Court. The Court granted the government’s applications for a partial stay “but only to the extent that the injunctions are broader than necessary to provide complete relief to each plaintiff with standing to sue.” Boardman’s February 5 nationwide injunction in CASA, Civ. No. DLB-25-201, was among the injunctions in that set. A stay of breadth is not a holding that EO 14160 is lawful and not a holding that it is unlawful. The Court did not decide the Citizenship Clause merits.

After the June 27 partial stay, plaintiffs amended to a class action. On August 7, 2025, Boardman certified a Rule 23(b)(2) class (ECF 130) of children born in the United States after February 19, 2025, under the parental-status categories recited in the order, excluding parents from the class definition. The same-day memorandum (ECF 131) and order (ECF 132) granted a class-wide preliminary injunction: named officers “are ENJOINED from enforcing the Executive Order against the class representatives and the members of the certified class until further order of this Court.” ECF 132 also granted the joint motion to vacate and dissolved the February 5, 2025 injunction. Quote, verified from ECF 131: plaintiffs are “highly likely to succeed”; “The preliminary injunction applies to all members of the certified class across the country.” A class preliminary injunction is still a district-court preliminary injunction. Government appeal: Fourth Circuit No. 25-2188 (docketed Oct 7, 2025; abeyance Dec 9, 2025). Abeyance is not a merits affirmance.

United States v. Roske, No. 8:22-cr-00209-DLB (D. Md.), charged Nicholas John Roske with attempt to assassinate a Justice of the United States, 18 U.S.C. § 351(c). The indictment was filed June 15, 2022. Case reassigned to Boardman January 10, 2025. Roske pleaded guilty April 8, 2025, without a plea agreement (docket). On October 3, 2025, Boardman held sentencing. Judgment ECF 116 (entered Oct 6, 2025; signed Oct 3) records: IMPRISONMENT for 97 months; SUPERVISED RELEASE for Life; ASSESSMENT $100.00. Amended Judgment ECF 134 (Dec 11, 2025) repeats the same imprisonment and supervised-release terms after a granted motion to amend. A criminal judgment is a judgment in that case. It is not a House vote.

The Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs stated the same day that Roske “was sentenced today to 97 months in federal prison to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release” and that “The Department of Justice advocated for a sentence of at least 30 years to life.” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said the Department “will be appealing the woefully insufficient sentence.” Those are DOJ’s words. An announced appeal is not a Fourth Circuit holding. Government notice of appeal ECF 123; USCA No. 25-4598.

GovInfo and Congress.gov host the introduced text of H. Res. 818, 119th Congress: “Impeaching Deborah Boardman, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, for high crimes and misdemeanors.” Introduced October 17, 2025, by Mr. Roy (for himself and named cosponsors). Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary the same day. Congress.gov status: Introduced. There is one article. Its caption is “Willful and Systemic Refusal to Comply with the Law.” Article I of the introduced text recites the October 3, 2025, Roske sentence — not the CASA injunctions. The resolution’s wherefore clause is the resolution speaking. It is not a finding by this site and not a finding by a court. This file will not write “IMPEACHED.”

The introduced text attributes to Boardman the words: “I take into consideration the conditions of pre-trial confinement and the fact that she is a transgender woman.” That quotation appears in the House paper. It is not independently verified from a Boardman-signed PDF on this page; treat the attribution as the resolution’s claim until a sentencing-transcript primary is hosted.