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I hope the Rats don't capture the House, but if they pull stunts like this, I don't think they will keep their majority long. How about impeaching judges for absurdities like finding a right to gay marriage in the Constitution?

I don't think this University of Alabama professor has much in common with most Alabamians. This piece reminds me that all Federal funding for law students (and thus law schools) should be ended. We have enought lawyers. Let people work after college and save for law school and take private loans for law school.

1 posted on 09/20/2018 12:22:11 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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The New York Times has given up any semblance of being a newsgathering organization. They are now a wholly-owned subsidiary of the demonrat party and its communications arm.


2 posted on 09/20/2018 12:24:07 PM PDT by jyo19
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Panicked Libs are floating court-packing plans too.
If they get majorities + White House expand POTUS to 15 judges.


3 posted on 09/20/2018 12:24:59 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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Imagine if we tried to impeach Kagan, Wise Latina, and Senile RBG. Even I would disapprove, no matter how much I despise those anti-American judicial activists. The left would freak out and riot in the streets - again. They would be wise to avoid taking the step against justices who uphold the rule of law. Unfortunately, leftists are never wise. By definition.


4 posted on 09/20/2018 12:25:10 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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Delusional nonsense. They said the same thing after Clarence Thomas was confirmed, and the Democrats never uttered a peep about impeaching him even when they were well positioned to do so.


5 posted on 09/20/2018 12:25:54 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The Russians escaped while we weren't watching them ... like Russians will)
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Maybe go back to reading for the law and being an intern for a lawyer like Abe Lincoln did.


6 posted on 09/20/2018 12:26:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Or Democrats could just smother him with a pillow as they’ve done in the past


7 posted on 09/20/2018 12:27:22 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
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There has to be "cause" to impeach a judge.

Alcee Hastings, when he was a judge WAS impeached ( by the House, but he then had to have a trial in the Senate, at which point he was removed ); however, that was after a criminal trial, that took place in a state.

9 posted on 09/20/2018 12:29:01 PM PDT by nopardons
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More like a barf alert

these fools are insane


10 posted on 09/20/2018 12:29:15 PM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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NYT: “The case for impeaching (fill in the name of any politician not a democrat here).


11 posted on 09/20/2018 12:30:21 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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Replacing all of these libs and newspapers with die hard communists from the old Soviet Union would make no difference.


12 posted on 09/20/2018 12:31:02 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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I’ll admit I did not go to the NYT website to read the article. Does the author present a case for Kavanaugh’s impeachment—or is he simply saying that a democrat-controlled House can impeach if it feels like it.


13 posted on 09/20/2018 12:31:40 PM PDT by hanamizu
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The New York Times suggestion is, frankly, a call for a misuse of the impeachment process. Even if, at 17, Judge Kavanaugh had felt up a drunken teen aged girl, that would hardly be an indication 36 years later, that he had violated the standards of "good behavior," in his judicial character.

Once again the Times shows its true colors. Once again, I feel vindicated in making the Times the villain (antagonist), in my political novel.

Hell! I even remember sitting down with an honest journalist when I was only 18, many years ago, and going through the day's edition of the Times, and seeing one item after another that was completely biased. They have been warring on the truth for generations!

18 posted on 09/20/2018 12:37:28 PM PDT by Ohioan
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They aren’t going to have to impeach Kavanaugh. I think he will testify, defend his innocence as best he can at this point and then tell them to eff themselves. I do not see this decent man putting his wife and two daughters through years of pain. Their lives have been destroyed by these harpies. We were out to dinner with some friends last night and two of them were lawyers. They both agreed that this is what Kavanaugh will likely do.

A little bit ago, Gillibrand was being interviewed, ranting in an escalating hysteria. She was almost incoherent, making ridiculous demands and I honestly think this is their plan to just get Kavanaugh to withdraw.


20 posted on 09/20/2018 12:39:58 PM PDT by Toespi
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The esteemed author--


22 posted on 09/20/2018 12:45:28 PM PDT by Charlemagne on the Fox
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New York Times writers ought to be strangled with their own intestines.


23 posted on 09/20/2018 12:48:51 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 1)
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If Kavanaough is confirmed and the republicans do ok in the upcoming election, and the likely corruption of Hillary, and company is exposed, Democratic party as we know it today will be toast. They’re throwing hail marys all over the place and it’s easy to see why.


25 posted on 09/20/2018 12:51:03 PM PDT by cymbeline
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This is something I had not thought of. Should the Democrats get control of both House and Senate look for wholesale conveyor belt impeachment of conservative judges, maybe batch impeachments, even, from the Supreme Court to District Courts.


27 posted on 09/20/2018 1:15:25 PM PDT by arthurus (i9g)
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The Constitution does provide that federal judges, including Supreme Court justices, “shall hold their Offices during good Behavior.” The settled understanding of this phrase is that so-called Article III judges enjoy lifetime tenure. But the Constitution also makes both judicial and executive officers subject to impeachment. And, as it happens, the House of Representatives holds “the sole Power of Impeachment.” If the Democrats win back the House in November, they can exercise that power.

But, in the meantime, the Republicans hold power in the White House, the Senate, and the House and they can hold a vote on the confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh at their time of choosing. Should the Democrats take control of the House, do they really intend to bring impeachment charges against Justice Kavanaugh on the grounds that his good behavior extends to his high school years and rests on a specious allegation that could never be argued in any Court in this country. The trial in the Senate could be conducted over lunch with the obvious result.

29 posted on 09/20/2018 1:23:00 PM PDT by centurion316 (Back from exile from 4/2016 until 4/2018.)
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the House of Representatives holds “the sole Power of Impeachment.”

Which constitution are they reading? There is another clause. It reads:

The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.

30 posted on 09/20/2018 1:41:42 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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The relative ease of computers has made people think that if they can type, they can write; and if they can write, any of their ridiculous, execrable opinions are valid. This pompous piece of crap is a prime illustration of such opinion inflation.


39 posted on 09/20/2018 5:47:07 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Ain't no reaching across the aisle in Hell.)
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