This "sense of the house" amounts to an opinion and is not binding. It does nothing. They should be drafting articles of impeachment. That would actually accomplish something.
Agreed! Gutless. We've lost the Republic. Now it's just sweeping out the remaining inconvenient stuff that's left over. I think the Justices should start appending additional titles to their names, like the Emperors in ancient Rome.
This resolution amount to a Declaration of Impotence.
Drafting Articles of Impeachment and even Impeaching one or more Justices would accomplish nothing, because you need 67 Senators to convict and that won't happen.
Instead, the House should pass a bill increasing the number of SCOTUS Justices to fifteen justices -- effective seven days after the bill becomes Law. Then the Senate needs to use the "nucular" option to ram the bill thorugh and subsequently confirm six new Scalias.
'"Even that great advocate of judicial power, Chief Justice John Marshall, wrote during impeachment proceedings against Justice Samuel Chase for his arbitrary use of judicial power that "a Judge giving a legal opinion contrary to the opinion of the legislature is liable to impeachment."'
'Article III states that "The Judges, both of the Supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior," and it is not "good behavior" to hand down rulings based on personal social views rather than the Constitution's words.'
'The impeachment cases brought during our country's first half-century involved non-statutory offenses, such as judicial high-handedness. It's easy to think of some current judges who could be targets for impeachment on that charge.'
'When President Gerald Ford was a Congressman, he proposed the impeachment of one of the most liberal of all Supreme Court Justices, William O. Douglas. Ford, who was a moderate in every sense of the word, explained Congress's tremendous and far-reaching power of impeachment: "An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history; conviction results from whatever offense or offenses two-thirds of the other body [the Senate] considers to be sufficiently serious to require removal of the accused from office."'
'When we open the topic of impeachment, we hear a lot of impassioned talk about preserving the "independence" of the judiciary. That's really a cover to shield federal judges from accountability. The Founders did not intend life tenure for federal judges to saddle us with a judicial oligarchy.
In our intricate constitutional system of interlacing checks and balances, the legislative and executive branches are held accountable by frequent elections. Judges should be held accountable by the Senate's "advice and consent" power to withhold confirmation, and by the House's power to impeach judges for lack of "good behavior."'
all quotes are quotes from:
It's Time to Hold Federal Judges Accountable
http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/1997/mar97/psrmar97.html
I doubt that anyone in Congress will agree to proceed with impeachment.