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Per the Article: Most everyone assumes that impeachment is the only means of removing federal judges and that the Constitution’s grant of good-behavior tenure is an implicit reference to impeachment. This Article challenges that conventional wisdom. Using evidence from England, the colonies, and the revolutionary state constitutions, the Article demonstrates that at the Founding, good-behavior tenure and impeachment had only the most tenuous of relationships. The original Constitution did not render impeachment the only possible means of removing federal judges with good-behavior tenure. Given the long tradition of adjudicating misbehavior in the ordinary courts, Congress may enact necessary and proper...

Impeach judge who influenced Michigan case Joseph Perkins June 13, 2003 Boyce Martin should be impeached. That's the only fitting response to the recent damning revelation that the chief judge of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals flouted court rules to ensure that the court returned a ruling backing the University of Michigan in a case challenging its law school's race-conscious admissions policy. The case, Grutter v. James, subsequently went to the U.S. Supreme Court, where the justices heard oral arguments in April. The high court's decision is expected by the end of this month. Martin, a liberal appointed...