Reply #30: I wasn't talking about "impeachment" -

[Tangerine LaBamba]

you're trying to change the terms of our exchange.

It was not about "impeachment."

It was about removal from the bench. There are ways other than impeachment, and I am telling you that the political realities are such that a judge in such a position as Jay Bybee may find himself - publicly shamed, disbarred - would have no choice but to resign.

Never change the terms in the middle of the negotiations. It's not a valid way to operate.

"... push a judge out"? Are you serious? Do you honestly believe everything that happens in government is visible? Or memorialized in any lasting way?

George Washington University Law School is a terrific place. I've studied there and I've lectured there. I'm glad you had exposure to such top-flight minds, but if you want to enjoy a truly enhanced experience, understand that what they said in that discussion, like all good legal exchanges, was but a starting point, and infinitely flexible, just like the law. You are charged with putting your own understanding of the world onto the template the law professors - tenured, no less - have given you, and that will require a certain amount of worldly experience and the ability to integrate them into the legal opinions.....................