Trent Franks’ prior bills are an excellent starting point.
One of Trent Franks’ main ideas was to take the Constitutional limitation on judges serving “DURING GOOD BEHAVIOR” and having Congress DEFINE what qualifies as “GOOD BEHAVIOR.”
So if judges committed certain wrongs, that would not qualify as good behavior, and they would automatically be removed as judges.
His examples were misconduct — including abusive attitudes toward litigants — that no one could defend as being good behavior.
It says a lot that the cowardly and corrupt establishment showed no interest in Trent Franks’ legislation.
“So if judges committed certain wrongs, that would not qualify as good behavior, and they would automatically be removed as judges.”
I think that is where many in Congress balk, deciding before hand that their fears of getting agreement on exactly which “certain wrongs” and how to define them without wiggle room, will be impossible to obtain, and because of that shirk from the idea without trying.
I think to get to it Congress should decide to not decide, directly, but instead establish a Congressional bipartisan joint commission and the vote that approves the commission is also a vote to accept its decisions. No one will be 100% happy but some progress on it will be better than none.