Posted on 05/04/2016 7:53:28 AM PDT by huldah1776
Get rid of Roberts first....
It would require the proper showings under the impeachment process. Several lesser court judges have faced such discipline. Cox for one.
It should be a very formal process and guarded by rule. Lest ye’ be hoisted on your own pike at a later date and time.
Ding. Ding.
They could, but it’s a major disgrace to the justice to be impeached. To get congress to go along, you have to have a substantial case. And you’re talking about political battle that will have the press up in arms.
Trump should tap Gingrich to start putting together impeachment cases against lower federal judges. Gingrich has suggested we impeach judges. And it’s a target rich environment. We need experience before we take on SCOTUS with impeachments.
That’s where you need a psycho pitbull on the Supreme Court who will stop at nothing. Ted Cruz.
We don’t need judical temperment, we need pitbull temperment.
You give sage advice there.
Poor Sore Loser Eric, what Conservative nominee have you supported? Mitt Romney or John Mc Cain? I see a Chapter 11 in your future
Thank You
Congress has to be careful about setting precedent.
If one Congress starts removing SC justices, future Congresses will do the same. That would make SC justices susceptible to presidential elections.
Gingrich had a better plan when running. Repeat what Thomas Jefferson did:
“Upon ascending to the presidency, Jefferson then did something remarkable — he and his congressional allies passed the Judicial Act of 1803 that simply abolished the newly-created judgeships and the courts they presided over. He reminded the deposed judges that they had no cases to hear, no building in which to hear them, and no funding for their salaries. The former judges took their case to the Supreme Court, demanding that their positions be restored. Under the plain terms of the Constitution, however, they didn’t have a leg to stand on, and President Jefferson emerged victorious.
Today we face a similar issue: those whose policies are unable to win at the ballot box are seeking to build a stronghold of government power in the courts, without needing to garner a single vote. Just as it did in 1803, the Executive and Legislative branches could take action today and ”reorganize” the Ninth Circuit Court right out of existence!”
Now, you couldn’t do this with the supreme court, but you could with every other federal court.
The tenure of Supreme Court Justices is for life under Federal law (pursuant to Art III powers vested in Congress). Removal of a Justice requires impeachment unless the law is changed.
After Cruz's cozying to the establishment, I can't get behind Cruz.
Wishful thinking. That is NOT the "most generally accepted understanding" at all.
But if a standard could be defined -- which it can't, by the way -- then it would seem Congress has the power to remove a Justice without impeachment.
I say a standard cannot be defined because there are at least two schools of thought regarding Constitutional adherence: the Strict Constructionsists like the late and grievously missed Antonin Scalia, and the revisionists/progressives/claptrappists like Ginsburg and Breyer.
You'll never get the legal community to agree on what constitutes "good behavior" in the Constitutional sense.
The president nominates supreme court justices, who have to be confirmed by the Senate. The idea of removing any Justices, without controlling the replacements is asinine.
The next president will replace Scalia and may also replace Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Anthony Kennedy, and Stephen Breyer (all of whom will be 80+ during that term). If a democrat is elected or if Trump does not pick reliable conservative justices, abortion on demand will be the law until 2050.
my first thought.
That will certainly shake things up.
-PJ
Yes they can, but they won’t.
The Senate Republicans would love to see him leave (GTFOOH), and Presidential Candidate Trump could gain brownie points for supporting this highly qualified Conservative, constitutional scholar, and douche bag on the Supreme Court.
I say it is a win-win-win-win for Cruz, the Senate, the country, and Trump.
Time to be pragmatic!
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