I have a question…
Is the Supreme Court itself above the law? In particular, individual members.
In the case where the Constitution CLEARLY says one thing and the Justice’s opinion goes contrary to that, what is the legal recourse? If the constitution CLEARLY says the grass is green and their opinion is predicated on it being red, which is OBJECTIVELY not true, what recourse is there to remove a justice? What is the check against the court itself being corrupt? I don’t feel like it can only be “wait until the other side takes the majority, and MAYBE you’ll get to nominate a couple justices”. If they make enough wrong decisions, it could start a snowball leading to Dems never losing again.
The failure to hear the Texas case from the 2020 election comes to mind.
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SCOTUS justices can be impeached. Samuel Chase is the only one that has been, and that was in 1805.
Okay, so if that’s anything like Presidential impeachment, it would take having majorities in both houses of Congress for that to work… even if you could “prove” extreme dereliction of duty, Dems would NEVER vote to impeach a lib judge
Exactly, because of the “job for life” clause, they would never dare to remove one.
I answered your question. Don't shoot the messenger.
Yeah, no fren… no argument… just clarifying/thinking out loud
In addition to impeachment, they are not immune from criminal prosecution and so they could be criminally tried, but only for crimes, not for bad performance on the job.
Is breaking their oath to preserve the Constitution a crime?
In layman's and moral terms, yes. But in criminal code, no. So that would have to go the impeachment route.
It's a slippery slope. I am including the CNN link to demonstrate that they want to be able to go through this process more than we do, at the moment.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/16/politics/scotus-impeach/index.html
Suicide by pillow.