Did 600 federal judges sign a petition to impeach U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts? No, that's not true: That story originated on a satirical Facebook page that clearly labels its content as fake. The owner of the page is known for tricking conservatives into liking and sharing made-up content.
The claim appeared in an April 6, 2025 Facebook post (archived here) on the America's Last Line of Defense account but was gaining popularity again in early September 2026. The post had the caption, "His peers know he's a globalist on the take, and they made their concerns known." The image contained the writing:
More than 600 Federal Judges have Signed a Petition to Impeach Chief Justice John Roberts. "He no longer represents nor respects the laws of our nation."
This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at Facebook.com/Americaslastlineofdefense.)
Here is what the image of Roberts looked like in the post at the time of writing:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at Facebook.com/Americaslastlineofdefense.)
As seen in the screenshot above, the image showed a logo of "America's Last Line of Defense," and the homepage of the Facebook account (archived here) clearly states, "The flagship of the ALLOD network of trollery and propaganda for cash. Nothing on this page is real," as this screenshot shows:
(Source: Lead Stories screenshot of Facebook.com/Americaslastlineofdefense account.)
The claim was picked up by other social media accounts with the America's Last Line of Defense logo on the image but it was not identified as satire, as this one posted on the @snowball1776 account (archived here).
The first comment on the post is a link to an article published on the Dunning Kruger Times website (archived here), titled, "More Than 600 Federal Judges Have Signed a Petition to Impeach Chief Justice John Roberts." It opens with a clear indicator that it is not legitimate:
In what legal scholars are calling "both historic and possibly made up," over 600 federal judges have reportedly signed a secret petition to impeach Chief Justice John Roberts. The petition, which no one has actually seen but everyone seems to be talking about, allegedly began circulating last week after Roberts was spotted leaving a D.C. steakhouse without tipping his valet.
The Facebook page says it is run by "Busta Troll," which is the nickname of Christopher Blair.
Christopher Blair is a self-professed liberal from Maine who, for years, has run networks of websites set up to troll conservatives with made-up news items in order to get them to share his posts. A 2018 BBC profile called Blair "the Godfather of fake news," describing him as "one of the world's most prolific writers of disinformation."
The account is part of a network of satire websites and those pages display satire disclaimers and predominantly publish made-up stories with headlines specifically created to trigger Republicans, conservatives and evangelical Christians into angrily sharing or commenting on the story on Facebook without actually reading the full article, exposing them to mockery and ridicule by fans of the sites and pages.
Blair's stories have been widely copied by spammy, foreign website networks seeking to profit by spamming American conservatives with clickbait headlines.
Had a petition been signed by 600 federal judges calling for the impeachment of Chief Justice Roberts, it would have been major news. A Google search found other face checks about the claim and no actual news reports. Similarly, the Yahoo! News index of partner news sites and news services (archived here) showed no legitimate news reports a petition signed by 600 federal judges calling for Roberts' impeachment.
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This claim was also investigated by Snopes.com.
