I think you mistaken. The House judiciary committee is where investigative/impeachment hearings originate. And the perception of wrong doing can place much political pressure on those involved.
Perhaps I’m not clear on WHO you are talking about impeaching. Or on what wrongdoing charges. Sotomayor and Kagen hold lifetime appointments. They may be loud and aggressive and extremely far to the left, but how does that become official wrongdoing?
Impeachment is very, very serious, and as much as we may not like a thing this Administration or these two new Justices have done, what grounds would there be to impanel an impeachment committee? That isn’t how we settle our political disputes.
You may recall that John Conyers, when he was ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, insisted on holding investigative/impeachment hearings on President Bush? Recall how seriously he was taken? He held his hearings in the basement of the Capitol.
Even when there were clear grounds for what became a successful impeachment of Clinton, he was not only never convicted, but gained public sympathy. His popularity soared. Is that really where we want to go ?
This past election, it seems to me, was about stopping and undoing the federal governments expansive grasp of power. The Congress will have its hands full just working to achieve that. Becoming sidetracked with impeachment hearings and investigations is not really the way to accomplish that. If they are successful, this Administration will hopefully be gone by 1-20-13.
The only possible way I can see to get rid of Sotomayor and/or Kagen would be if the SCOTUS determined that BHO was not eligible to serve as POTUS, thus not eligible to have appointed them. Although, in that case, Biden would become POTUS and would most likely just reaffirm every official action taken by BHO. Like it or not, we have those two for life. Our job is to see that we don’t get any more similar appointments.