I post this as information useful to remedy the problem with the 9th Circuit Court problem judges.
Per the Article:
During Thomas Jefferson’s first term, Congress impeached and convicted New Hampshire District Judge John Pickering and impeached but failed to convict Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase. In each case, the articles of impeachment alleged acts that may well have amounted to misbehavior in office but that from a detached perspective do not look like high crimes or misdemeanors.
So the fact that in these circumstances Congress relied upon impeachment rather than devising some other procedure more tailored to misbehavior may suggest that, by 1803 at least, Congress regarded the Constitution as doing what we have argued it did not do—namely, conflating impeachment and the removal of judges for misbehavior.
I note the 9th circus is in SF. Since the 9th has the state of Alaska under its domaine, why not just relocate it in Nome. That way they will be both mentally and physically in the dark 24 hours of some days when they can have the court in session.
Thanks for posting it.
Take away the jurisdiction of judges found by a majority of Congress to have “exceeded their authority”, “engaged in judicial usurpation” or “violated the constitution in order to achieve political ends”. They can sit there in their empty chambers. Or they can do Indian reservation traffic cases. We’ll let them handle those.