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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf we win the WH and Congress, it would be within our power to impeach and remove
whoever trump appoints to the SC, using the logic that McConnel set the set the precedent by denying President Obama his SC nomination
I don't know if the Democrats would be unified enough to do it, but it should be seriously considered
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,838 posts)PTWB
(4,131 posts)Compare that number to the number of senators required to vote to remove someone from office.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)The process is the same as impeaching the president of the United States. The House of Representatives would vote on whether to impeach the justice in question. If the justice is impeached, there would be a Senate trial.
The House needs only a simple majority to impeach a Supreme Court justice or any federal judge. To convict and then remove the justice or judge, the Senate requires a two-thirds majority.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,696 posts)Much, much easier to use the new Dem Senate to expand SCOTUS to 15 seats, have Biden appoint 6 young, new RBGs, and dilute the power and influence of any single justice.
Stinky The Clown
(67,838 posts)THAT is the reason to expand the court
I would also like to see term limits but no bar to reappointment
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)since he committed perjury, among other misdeeds and probably at least one criminal sexual assault, and is flagrantly unqualified and unfit temperamentally for the SC.
We'll see who Trump picks.
His "placement" was an abomination that played out before our eyes.
That would be met with massive public blowback, and would rightly be an abuse of power. Besides thag, it wouldn't work. We will not have enough seats, even in our wildest dreams, to convict in the senate.
Much better idea to simply pack the court and make any one court seat small. We should also push for statehood for DC, PR, and Guam.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)Unless you think somehow we will get to 67.
TwilightZone
(25,512 posts)For judges, it basically boils down to serious criminal conduct to warrant proceedings.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)and even if they had we lack the votes to convict. Maybe its time to quit screaming Impeachment every thirty seconds.
still_one
(92,492 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)comes with a political price. It should be used when someone commits acts that warrant removal, and only when the votes exist to make it possible.
still_one
(92,492 posts)malaise
(269,257 posts)have been appointed by the Con and Moscow Mitch will be removed - more than a few are beyond unqualified and have enough skeletons in their closets for a Halloween theme park.
Truth will out.