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To: DoughtyOne

we need an age limit of justices. maybe 75.

don’t tell any one CNN had the best article of course they all want to impeach kavanaugh according to their legal minds, it’s the same process for a USSC justice. The house and then the senate.

From wiki
The Constitution provides that justices “shall hold their offices during good behavior” (unless appointed during a Senate recess). The term “good behavior” is understood to mean justices may serve for the remainder of their lives, unless they are impeached and convicted by Congress, resign, or retire.[97] Only one justice has been impeached by the House of Representatives (Samuel Chase, March 1804), but he was acquitted in the Senate (March 1805).[98] Moves to impeach sitting justices have occurred more recently (for example, William O. Douglas was the subject of hearings twice, in 1953 and again in 1970; and Abe Fortas resigned while hearings were being organized in 1969), but they did not reach a vote in the House. No mechanism exists for removing a justice who is permanently incapacitated by illness or injury, but unable (or unwilling) to resign.[99]


50 posted on 10/23/2019 6:16:35 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Use Comey's Report, Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: morphing libertarian

Thanks for the interesting information.

I hadn’t thought of that incapacitation factor. That’s interesting.

In the old days, and incapacitated person would probably die in short order. Today we can keep them alive.

Ruth for instance... (half kidding)


51 posted on 10/23/2019 6:22:18 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (This space for rent.)
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