L'Italien has shown a knack for generating headlines in her crowded primary, most notably by duping "Fox & Friends First" earlier this summer. The show thought it had booked a so-called pro-ICE Democrat, but it
had reached out to L'Italien's spokesman by mistake. L'Italien went ahead with the appearance and used it as a platform to blast Trump's immigration policy.
Hey it's her. It's because of sexual harassment allegations from an attorney before he was confirmed 52-48. A justice has only been impeached once, in 1804 and was acquitted, so I'll be very surprised if this goes
anywhere.
Hopefully they'll yank the Trump appointed ones out when his ass is thrown in prison. They shouldn't be there, the president who nominated the both of them is in that seat for unlawful reasons, their appointments should be invalidated.
I doubt it since appointing a judge means nothing if they can't pass congress. The only way they would yank judges off of the supreme court is if they commit a crime or act in a manner unbecoming of a judge. Yanking a judge for any reason other than that sets a REALLY dangerous precedent. I really don't think I need to explain how removing a judge like that would put us down a REALLY dark path.
I get that people are upset with Trump, but this is taking it a bit too far. The justices won’t be removed, because they had to be confirmed by the US Senate. Which they were. Presidents can’t just dump justices onto the Supreme Court.
Also Trump hasn’t been convicted of any crimes while acting as President, so no, Trump hasn’t acted unlawfully. Innocent until proven guilty etc. Advocating for removing those justices just because you don’t like Trump is a really dangerous mindset which would flip one of the foundations of western democracy, the rule of law, right onto its head. Imagine the outrage here if a Republican advocated for removing a justice appointed by a Democrat President. It’s the same as what you’re suggesting.
It sets a precedent that if someone gets access to a position, such as being the president, through working with hostile foreign powers and election rigging then the actions they take will be countered and undone because they never should have been done to begin with.
No, it sets a precedent that supreme court justices can be removed for reasons outside of their performance. I don't want to go down that road, and I'm fairly positive that you don't want to open that box either.
I'm fine with going that route because the circumstances we are faced with are extraordinary and it sets such a weak, meaningless precedent for anything else other than these extraordinary circumstances when they shouldn't be there to begin with.
No, it doesn't. It opens the door to throwing out supreme court justices at whim with nothing more than a flip of congress.
Hardly. That's just complaining about a slippery slope. You can establish it as policy for specific conditions and circumstances.
The only way I'd could see any justice impeached is if Kavanaugh/Gorsuch are the only dissenters in US v. Trump, and Democrats sweep the Senate in 2018 and 2020.
Because we didn't see this with Gorsuch's confirmation, right?
What, where the GOP simply didn't do their job to begin with, further establishing reason that at the very least his first appointee should be removed?
Where they used the same trick the democrats did to push him in.
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