But from the founders on, to protect us from judicial independence turning into judicial tyranny, we have done too little, in law, to flesh out some standards that define “good behavior”. I am frankly not satisfied with the only standard for “good behavior” the founders had in mind, which was that a judge themself had not committed a crime while they were a sitting judge. I think that is an insufficient standard. I think there is too much leeway and loohole areas in judicial discreation that permits judicial negligence.
I think there should be impeachment trials that through analysis and interrogation by Congress starts to lay out a body of judicial impeachment rulings that judges begin to realize set some limits on their discretion. They can then ignore them or see Congress apply them against them also.
I am in total agreement with you. The hurdle is that the House of Representatives is deliberately using the Judiciary to legislate from the bench laws that the oligarchy wants, but which will lose them their seats if they pass it in Congress. Ditto with most of the agencies Congress created to delegate its authority to the Executive office.
So, to hope that Congress will do anything to hold the judges feet to the fire may be too much to hope for.
I think we need to get real citizen statesmen and women to be the majority of the House members before we will see progress on either of these 2 areas.