Posted on 07/02/2012 7:40:05 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Simple enough question. We need to start using this option.
He clearly brought the country closer to tyranny, and that in my view is an impeachable offense. Outside of "my view", his job is to uphold the constitution.
He failed to do his job. He failed to protect the people. He failed to protect COTUS.
He should be fired.
Of course he should be, but it will not happen. There have been worse than him on the bench. Think the idiots that found the way to make murder by abortion constitutional.
We’ll all be dead by then.
It can be and has been done.
Romney, if he had a hair on his ass, would say he would call for Roberts resignation the first day of his presidency and put in his place a staunch conservative.
So he deserves credit for upholding an unconstitutional bill by concocting a convoluted opinion that was so tortured and absurd that Justices Alito, Kennedy, Thomas and Scalia declined to sign it?
I don't think so.
“There isn’t a provision for impeaching or firing SCOTUS members.”
I think you’re misinformed?
From the constitution:
“The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior...]
Not a very high bar really. Removal would follow standard impeachment proceedings. For lower courts, the congress could eliminate them altogether, or reduce their jurisdictional reach at will. Providing the Senate and the President went along.
To be clear, I’m not advocating impeachment.
Sure- it’s nice to get along.
The dems have an impeached judge as a representive in the house. Old age causes me to forget his name...i’ll remember it later when it doesn’t matter...(oppps, just remember it Rep. Hastings.
How do you impeach a judge?
That said: most people in DC loved this opinion - they’re not going to dump the guy who gave it to them.
No way. At least not until Barack Obama is out of office. Why give him (Obama) another chance to nominate yet another ultra-liberal SC justice?
Kagan, OTOH, was instrumental in putting the whole boondoggle together, and should have recused. No point, really, because who will appoint the replacement?
Yes there should have been an impeacment outcry when Ginzburg went overseas and recommended countries NOT model their constitutions after ours. Crickets.
The fact is that Justice Roberts own incoherent rambling opinion, along with his known health problems and possible drug psychosis are more than enough reason to seek Impeachment.
Regardless of the actions of the Senate in conviction or acquittal, he would where the shame of impeachment throughout his life, and may possibly be brow beaten into resignation.
He has shown to be a cowardly twit. He will not stand up to the pressure and future justices that have decided to ignore the constitution would be but on notice.
Kagan should likewise be impeached for conflict of interest and Ginsbirgh for health reasons leading to incapacitation.
Trump up the charges and get it done right after the November election. The libs never hesitate to use bare knuckle tactics, we should start as well.
100%!!
So you condone pissing on the Constitution if it leads to the right election result? Read Thomas Sowell for the truth:
How far do you bend over backwards to avoid the obvious, that ObamaCare was an unprecedented extension of federal power over the lives of 300 million Americans today and of generations yet unborn?
These are the people that Chief Justice Roberts betrayed when he declared constitutional something that is nowhere authorized in the Constitution of the United States.
http://www.creators.com/opinion/thomas-sowell/judicial-betrayal.html
Agreed. Roberts has essentially moved the issue over to We the People.
that is what I was thinking. Mark Levine, suggested if the court wants to be political, they should be given term limits.
What he did was make it perfectly clear he will bend over backwards to avoid finding any federal legislation unconstitutional, no matter how insidious the law is.
He is going to be around another 20 years and has telegraphed that the feds can stomp all over our rights without objection from him.
If Congress passed a bill making obama president for life, Roberts would refuse to rule against it.
Please tell us the basis of an impeachment. That you don’t like his decision? That he didn’t fulfill his job description? Firing Justice Robert is truly a hair-brained idea. Especially when no one can name a justified reason for his impeachment. Now you all are beginning to sound like Democrats—the really stupid Democrats.
With another who appoints activist Liberals waiting in the wings, it will likely only get worse.
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