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To: nickcarraway

Can we impeach Supreme Court Justices?


5 posted on 06/30/2013 12:31:03 PM PDT by sauropod (Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
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To: sauropod

“Can we impeach Supreme Court Justices?”

No but the states can start ignoring Supreme Court declarations. If Obama and Holder can decide which laws they will enforce, why can’t the States determine which Supreme Court rulings they will obey?

Amendment 10 to the US. Constitution: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

The only way the abuse of federal power will stop is when the states and the people stand up to it. Not unlike 1776.


25 posted on 06/30/2013 12:58:03 PM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: sauropod

Yes. Federal judges can be impeached, convicted, and removed from the bench, (see Article II, Section 4 of the US Constitution). It is possible to impeach federal judges, but is seldom done. Fifteen federal judges have been impeached since 1804. One was a Supreme Court justice.


48 posted on 06/30/2013 3:10:46 PM PDT by garfield
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To: sauropod

“Can we impeach Supreme Court Justices?”

Sure. Let’s get the people that voted in Obama twice to help us impeach a Supreme Court Justice


57 posted on 06/30/2013 4:46:48 PM PDT by plain talk
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Yes — as I recall it’s never been done though..it has happened a few times at the U.S. District Court level, maybe Court of Appeals level...


67 posted on 06/30/2013 8:39:43 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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