[conservativesister]

If Trump can appoint judges, can he remove i.e. fire judges?

[grey_whiskers]

Constitutionally, only Congress may remove judges, IIRC: absent, of course, criminal behaviour (e.g. didn't Lincoln remove judges for sedition via arrest?)

Also, judges who fall afoul of criminal statutes lose judicial immunity, there was a case a number of years back in Pennsylvania where crooked judges were unjustly removing "troubled teens" (on specious grounds) from their family and putting them in a residential group home setting, only to get kickbacks from the operators of the group homes. This pierced both qualified and judicial immunity, as a crime by definition cannot be part of legitimate judicial functions, so immunity does not attach to it.