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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: Soul of the South
No but the states can start ignoring Supreme Court declarations.

Arkansas tried that in 1957, but it ended badly when President Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne into Little Rock with bayonets fixed and orders to use those bayonets on white Southerners who dared to raise their hands in defiance to the Supreme Court and the authority of the federal government.

26 posted on 06/30/2013 1:01:24 PM PDT by Publius
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To: Soul of the South

Supreme Court Justices can indeed be impeached but in the current Senate, you would need 22 Democrats to vote guilty and Barry Soetoro would get to nominate the replacement; I don’t think we want that.
Justice Samuel Chase was impeached but found not guilty in 1805.


29 posted on 06/30/2013 1:09:00 PM PDT by Nero Germanicus
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To: Soul of the South; sauropod
Uh, yes Supreme Court Justices most certainly CAN be impeached. But it's never been done and not likely to happen.

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

In this particular instance, the state government of KKKalifornia has been almost completely homosexualized, and they are not going to stand up to the court.

32 posted on 06/30/2013 1:30:08 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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