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To: Hacksaw
So Chief Justice Rehnquist should also be impeached for speaking out against laws imposing minimum sentences.

I do not know the circumstances. Did he attend a political rally?

So you claim that judges can be impeached for taking advocacy positions---but only when they do so in certain locations? Provide evidence for your claim.

119 posted on 05/07/2003 10:21:18 AM PDT by MrLeRoy ("That government is best which governs least.")
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To: MrLeRoy
So you claim that judges can be impeached for taking advocacy positions---but only when they do so in certain locations? Provide evidence for your claim.

I didn't make a claim - I asked if he (Renquist) attended a political rally to state his position. You are mistating what I posted. I believe that a judge is free to express his personal beliefs - but when one attends a political rally under the banner of a judgeship, we are all headed for trouble. Such a judge should be impeached, as an impartial ruling can not be expected. I would say the same thing if a judge spoke at the "million" mom march. By doing so, a judge would give whatever political group, by his presence, intrinsic support of the judiciary.

Judges are supposed to be apolitical. I know it does not work that way, but they could at least try.

120 posted on 05/07/2003 10:50:50 AM PDT by Hacksaw
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