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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Impeach Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia [View all]BanTheGOP
(1,068 posts)14. It would actually be easier to ban the GOP than to remove a justice
The reason is that you need a 2/3rds-majority (67) of senators to remove a justice, and that's not going to happen.
What CAN happen is that the Justice Department can investigate and indict the republican Party because of its murderous and traitorist tenets using existing RICO statutes. We don't need ANY republican scumbag in any part of the sequence to invalidate its existence. No need worry of Congress nor even president. As long as we can associate republican party policies with the destructive economic, social, and environmental damage that has been inflicted on this country, and indeed the planet, we can render a society in which the Democratic Party does not have to be the only stalwart preventing this harbinger of doom.
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Was Chase impeached? No, the Senate acquited him. Then on what basis should Scalia be impeached?
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2012
#7
Impeach him for excercising his own first amendment rights? I dont think so.
cstanleytech
Jul 2012
#11
Not Scalia? Then how about the husband of the lobbyist Virginia Thomas? You know, the one who
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2012
#23
Now Thomas is a different story and imo he does deserve to be impeached. nt
cstanleytech
Jul 2012
#27
Interesting responses but consider that impeachment is a political move, not a criminal prosecution
Cary
Jul 2012
#12
If you were Scalia how would you like it if there was a vibrant movement advocating for
Cary
Jul 2012
#15
Then Kagan and Sotomayor are similarly affected by Rethug criticisms of impeachment
BanTheGOP
Jul 2012
#19
Getting a vibrant movement to impeach Scalia is unlikely. Banning the GOP is even less likely.
onenote
Jul 2012
#26