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BGBD

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6. Nutty

Reply to still_one (Original post)

Sat Sep 19, 2020, 12:08 PM

Sep 2020

That would be met with massive public blowback, and would rightly be an abuse of power. Besides thag, it wouldn't work. We will not have enough seats, even in our wildest dreams, to convict in the senate.

Much better idea to simply pack the court and make any one court seat small. We should also push for statehood for DC, PR, and Guam.

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If we win the WH and Congress, it would be within our power to impeach and remove [View all] still_one Sep 2020 OP

AFAIK, impeachment is entirely about the misdeeds of the person not that the process was abused. Thomas Hurt Sep 2020 #1

AFAIK you can impeach for a bad haircut Stinky The Clown Sep 2020 #12

Are you familiar with how many senate seats are up for grabs? PTWB Sep 2020 #2

2/3 majority SharonClark Sep 2020 #3

You need 67 to remove a Justice - ain't gonna happen Fiendish Thingy Sep 2020 #4

"and dilute the power and influence of any single justice" Stinky The Clown Sep 2020 #15

Maybe I'm way off base, but we might have better luck impeaching Kavanaugh Mike 03 Sep 2020 #5

+1 2naSalit Sep 2020 #16

Nutty BGBD Sep 2020 #6

No qazplm135 Sep 2020 #7

Impeachment is about the person, not how they arrived on the court. TwilightZone Sep 2020 #8

Nobody on the SC has committed an impeachable act Codeine Sep 2020 #9

Impeachment is whatever Congress decides it is. It is a political act of removal still_one Sep 2020 #10

Which, if done for the wrong reasons, Codeine Sep 2020 #11

It isn't going to happen regardless. I was just what ifing still_one Sep 2020 #14

The one thing I'm sure about is that many of the judges who malaise Sep 2020 #13