A Fayette County circuit judge is asking the Kentucky House Impeachment Committee to dismiss a petition seeking her removal from the bench, arguing the petition is legally deficient, lacks a required sworn affidavit, and amounts to an unconstitutional attempt to overturn the will of voters.
Judge Julie Muth Goodman, who has served on the Fayette County bench since 2008, filed a formal response to the impeachment petition on Feb. 23, through her attorneys. The petition, dated Jan. 28, 2026, was signed by Killian Timoney and centers on Goodman’s rulings in six cases.
Goodman’s attorneys argue the petition should be dismissed without further action for at least five separate reasons, any one of which they say is independently sufficient to end the proceedings…