28 years of bushes, clintons and o'muslims...A reign of treason & terror that no country would survive.
Posted on 11/26/2018 2:25:26 PM PST by dennisw
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court deals with some of the most sensitive matters of national security – terror threats and espionage. Its work for the most part cannot be examined by the American public, by order of the Congress and the President. It is a tribunal that is completely secret (or supposed to be), its structure largely one-sided, and its members unilaterally chosen by one person.
A rotating panel of federal judges at the FISC decides whether to grant certain types of government requests – wiretapping, data analysis, and other monitoring for “foreign intelligence purposes” of suspected terrorists and spies operating in the United States.
... [T]he 11 judges are appointed exclusively by the Chief Justice of the United States, without any supplemental confirmation from the other two branches of government. John Roberts has named every member of the current court, as a well as a separate three-judge panel to hear appeals of FISC orders, known as the Court of Review.
Can a Chief Justice be impeached?
just an idle question.
Of course. The House of Representatives can do it with a majority, as I recall.
It takes two thirds of the Senate to convict.
A problem I always had was how Roberts filled the position left open by Rehnquist and immediately became chief justice over others with a lot more experience and seniority.
An then stepped right in to the role of interpreting law and fictionalizing the Obama tax argument.
Yes. Supreme Court Justices are not appointed for “life”, they are appointed for their “period of good behavior”. Violating the Constitution constitutes “bad behavior” as far as I’m concerned. Perhaps Congress, the people with the ability to impeach them does not see it the same way.
For instance, Congress has used the Courts and Exectutive agencies to delegate their authority in order to avoid unpleasant votes. They like it that way, the swamp way.
Well worth the ten minutes.
You think the CJ would get a letter if I sent him one?
(probably another idle question)
Paid and bought
So a Judge just said OK to spy on a retired US Military Lt. General as a foreign intelligence agent? Okey Dokey, boy have I got a bridge to sell him.......
28 years of bushes, clintons and o'muslims...A reign of treason & terror that no country would survive.
“Any justice can be impeached, but it’s highly improbably since there are liberal judges and conservative judges who protect each other to guarantee the survival of their game.”
And just HOW do any other judges from ANY COURT have ANY JURISDICTION when it comes to impeachment of one of their number? There is this little thingy about separation of powers in The Constitution that rears its ugly head and says that judges can’t protect each other from the oversight of the Congress. In point of fact, with the exception of the SCOTUS, The Congress could abolish every f*cking court in the country! And maybe it would be a good idea, and then we could start of with a completely new slate of judges who would be Constitutionalists.
MISS YOU YET?
NO!
It would be an exciting, interesting, and highly successful political gamble.
Do judges go through background investigations? Because my understand of why they are done is to weed out those who may be subject to blackmail.
It is easy to see that any such action is 99.99% impossible. Thus proving Robert's statement about the political persuasion of judges to be 100% false.
Astounding.
I had no idea Roberts was wholly responsible.
He should resign for being both felony stupid and felony biased.
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