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Originally Posted by LATB
You are correct Yadkin, she should be impeached immediately. But we k know that will never happen to a black female judge.
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That will almost never happen to any judge. In fact, it's only happened once since 1790. And then Senate didn't vote to remove.
A second supreme resigned under threat of impeachment.
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In 1804, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach Associate Justice Samuel Chase. A signer of the Declaration of Independence, Chase was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President George Washington in 1796. A Federalist, Chase irked Thomas Jefferson and his Republican allies in Congress, and was impeached on politically motivated charges of acting in a partisan manner during several trials. However, in 1805 Chase was acquitted by the Senate. He served on the court until his death in 1811.
In 1969, Abe Fortas became the first—and, to date, only—Supreme Court justice to resign under the threat of impeachment. Named to the court by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965, Fortas was forced to step down due to financial improprieties that involved him agreeing to act as a paid consultant to the family foundation of a man under investigation for securities fraud.
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https://www.history.com/news/has-a-u...been-impeached
In my opinion this is a profound problem with the Constitution. It should be easy to impeach a Supreme, but Congress lacks balls. Impeachments should be decided on by the ultimate authority- the public. And the process should be streamlined to make it quick.