Yes, a nice witch hunt would be great. I mean it. Track down the judges who have issued nonsensical, anti-american, leftist rulings, and impeach them one by one. What has to happen to impeach a judge? Who tries the case? Who decides?
What are the odds of getting 2/3 of all Senators to remove a liberal judge absent treason or moral turpitude?
I pray along with most everybody here for an end to death by abortion, and am only somewhat aware of "the way the law really works". I understand the concept of granting certiorari and that it is unlikely that it will happen in this case. Also the concept of stare decisis which makes all lower courts follow higher court rulings and puts pressure for continuity. But what is not clear is what one person alluded to as the Catch-22 situation, i.e. how can it be possible in a free society for the opinion of an overwhelming majority of citizens in a specific area to count for nothing.
For example, there are several mostly smaller states such as West Virginia and South Dakota where the vast majority of legislators and the governor are pro-life! Yet what would happen if the state passed a law declaring that the executive branch of the state government is empowered to prevent all abortions (excluding say life of the mother etc) within state boundaries? Here in WV we have 31 of 34 state senators being pro-life as well as 80 of 100 state house members. Some other state are similar.
In fact last year the SD state house passed such a bill and it almost passed the state senate to be signed by the pro-life governor. The ONLY reason is didn't is that several pro-life senators understood that rather than enforcing a ban on abortions, the law would be immediately declared unconstitutional and upon appeal probably end up being taken up on certiorari by the US Supreme Court as a basis to RE-AFFIRM Roe v. Wade 6-3. Nothing would happen except for more pro-abortion propaganda by our left-wing press. So in fact it is absolutely essential to focus on getting either a pro-life majority on the USSC (which may be impossible since several have seemed conservative until they got on), or a Constitutional amendment (which fortunately overrules the USSC since they can't declare the Constitution un-Constitutional), or a bill through Congress declaring that the federal courts have no jurisdiction on such matters.
Many brilliant legal minds have thought long and hard about the problem at hand, and the current appeal for certiorari on the basis reported is their best shot, I would not call a press conference about it.
"Yes, a nice witch hunt would be great."
It's more like hunting down cannibals with a trail of 40 million corpses behind them.
"I mean it. Track down the judges who have issued nonsensical, anti-american, leftist rulings, and impeach them one by one."
It takes a very high standard to get a 2/3rds vote in the senate. We don't have enough senate seats yet, but we are getting close.
"What has to happen to impeach a judge? Who tries the case? Who decides?"
It has to be a judge who even ticks off the most left wing of the 2/3rds majority in the senate [or 2/3ds that has the most ticked off constituency.]
The senate votes for removal. First, a hearing is held. Starting a hearing would be the easy part if the majority leader has any guts. Fox News, talk radio, and the internet would most likely display a lot of interest if a Federal judge went through such a process. That could shape the next election cycle. If we pick a mainstream judge, it would go bad for us. If we pick a real leftwing nut, it would go well for us.
Rats would have to fall on their swords like crazy if we pick someone way out there to impeach.