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Celerity

(54,410 posts)
8. Impeachment only requires a simple majority in the House. Conviction and removal requires 2/3rds in the Senate. If
Sun Feb 9, 2025, 07:04 AM
Feb 2025

convicted in the Senate, there is a second vote, requiring only a simple majority, to lifetime ban the convicted person.

33taw

(3,343 posts)
11. Correct, but the goal is to remove the Judges. Just like Trump, they are not going anywhere.
Sun Feb 9, 2025, 10:51 AM
Feb 2025

Response to 33taw (Reply #11)

Hugin

(37,848 posts)
7. Unelected people getting indignant about unelected people is pretty rich...
Sun Feb 9, 2025, 06:13 AM
Feb 2025

Come on, Eloon. What have you got besides toddler grade deflection?

How do we know that “Glen Beck” isn’t another Musk sock puppet?

William Seger

(12,443 posts)
9. The judicial branch is the only thing in their way now
Sun Feb 9, 2025, 07:21 AM
Feb 2025

... and Musk is just trying to intimidate them, "playing the refs" fascist style.

tman

(1,252 posts)
10. Musk is not trying to impeach, he's trying to intimidate, knowing...
Sun Feb 9, 2025, 08:08 AM
Feb 2025

these judges will get violent threats. This is something much more sinister.

newdeal2

(5,417 posts)
13. Could it backfire?
Sun Feb 9, 2025, 11:10 AM
Feb 2025

I imagine SCOTUS will not be pleased to see federal courts targeted. Maybe that will influence their own decision making.

But for now I think this is a bunch of hot air.

Quiet Em

(2,937 posts)
14. This 53 year old man, who is still pampered by his parents,
Sun Feb 9, 2025, 11:23 AM
Feb 2025

has probably never heard the word no. Rich, entitled jerk, drunk with power, thinks he can do whatever he wants. So sick of him.

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