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To: mbrfl

I was looking up the judiciary question and I happened to run across this in Wikipedia:

Although the legal orthodoxy is that judges cannot be removed from office except by impeachment by the House of Representatives followed by conviction by the Senate, several legal scholars, including William Rehnquist, Saikrishna Prakash, and Steven D. Smith, have argued that the Good Behavior Clause may, in theory, permit removal by way of a writ of scire facias filed before a federal court, without resort to impeachment.[2]


106 posted on 09/29/2020 6:04:40 PM PDT by ichabod1 (He's a vindictive SOB but he's *our* vindictive SOB)
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To: ichabod1

Interesting. I hadn’t heard that before. Thanks for sharing.


112 posted on 09/29/2020 6:09:37 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: ichabod1

That sounds doable. Hmm, looked up writ of scire facias and I’m still not clear on it.

Scire facias is a judicial writ requiring a person to appear in court and argue why a judgment against them shouldn’t be annulled, vacated, executed, or enforced.


146 posted on 09/29/2020 6:27:45 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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