Unlike other impeachable offices, SCOTUS judges serve for an unlimited term that is subject to an undefined “during good behavior” rule.
A future administration with sufficient votes to reform SCOTUS can and should take this to impose a meaningful code of conduct on judges that can boot them from the bench without needing the senate to go through a political process.
Didn’t work for the Senate. Billionaires have enough money for a thousand judges. More judges just means less focus on the corrupt ones, and the ones who aren’t corrupt can be ignored and drowned out by the corrupt ones. It doesn’t matter if there’s 5 judges or 500 judges. It’s still just 51% that need to be pieces of shit in order to ruin it all.
I would rather see them impeach Alito and Thomas for blatant corruption, but neither will ever happen, so
Even if they did, Trump would get 2 more picks for SCJ
What’s the process for impeaching a US supreme court justice?
Same as any other office holder. Impeach in the house, convict in the Senate.
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Unlike other impeachable offices, SCOTUS judges serve for an unlimited term that is subject to an undefined “during good behavior” rule.
A future administration with sufficient votes to reform SCOTUS can and should take this to impose a meaningful code of conduct on judges that can boot them from the bench without needing the senate to go through a political process.
Basically the same as presidents and other political officers iirc
I agree completely, but the next best thing is making them irrelevant
Throw them in prison.
Making the system even larger is stupid. Make accountability instead.
I think both are good. More people means less individual influence.
Didn’t work for the Senate. Billionaires have enough money for a thousand judges. More judges just means less focus on the corrupt ones, and the ones who aren’t corrupt can be ignored and drowned out by the corrupt ones. It doesn’t matter if there’s 5 judges or 500 judges. It’s still just 51% that need to be pieces of shit in order to ruin it all.